In hoc signo spes mea —In this sign is my hope.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He no sooner saw his friend appear than he arose hastily to meet him; and after much congratulation said, “Nothing could be more opportune than this kind visit; for I was never more in the spleen in my life.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

me, if thy worth is not for me, if thy scorn is my affliction, though I be sufficiently long-suffering, hardly shall I endure this anxiety, which, besides being oppressive, is protracted.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If thy beauty despises me, if thy worth is not for me, if thy scorn is my affliction, though I be sufficiently long-suffering, hardly shall I endure this anxiety, which, besides being oppressive, is protracted.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

You have truly said, the stars will shed no light upon them; they, on the contrary, must illumine the stars; I mean, they must themselves be seen before the outward universe can assume intelligible meaning; must utter their voices before any of the phenomena of the external world can have any real significance!"
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

Chesterton's method in these stories is much the same as he employs in his essays; that is, he piles up paradoxical impossibilities, and then by some simple expedient resolves them into apparent reasonableness.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

Unfortunately, a devoted army of good men [Pg 10] started centuries ago with the idea that independent scientific investigation is unsafe—that theology must intervene to superintend its methods, and the Biblical record, as an historical compendium and scientific treatise, be taken as a standard to determine its results.
— from The Warfare of Science by Andrew Dickson White

Among those who consider that it consists in the falling of asteroids or meteorites into the sun, is Mr. J. R. Mayer, of Heilbronn, who states that the surface of the sun measures 115,000 million square miles, and that the asteroids falling thereon form a mass every minute equal in weight to from 94,000 to 188,000 billion kilogrammes.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

The following gives the ice movements in the Sound in more detail: March 24.-25.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

'The heart, Madam, in the sense I mean,' said he, 'implies the soul; which being a spirit, and invisible, can only be known by its effects.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Difference of mood in the same individual may be judged by the same measure.
— from The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

“I perceive,” continued the Father, “that I must instruct thy spirit in many things,—submission, among others.
— from The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale by Owen Wister