Also, in so far as religion is action, and in so far as it is a means of making men live, science could not take its place, for even if this expresses life, it does not create it; it may well seek to explain the faith, but by that very act it presupposes it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Besides, there are so many of both sorts, and some of them such harpies, so covetous, so clamorous, so impudent; and as [2026] he said, litigious idiots, Quibus loquacis affatim arrogantiae est Pentiae parum aut nihil, Nec ulla mica literarii salis, Crumenimulga natio: Loquuteleia turba, litium strophae, Maligna litigantium cohors, togati vultures, Lavernae alumni, Agyrtae, &c. Which have no skill but prating arrogance, No learning, such a purse-milking nation: Gown'd vultures, thieves, and a litigious rout Of cozeners, that haunt this occupation, that they cannot well tell how to live one by another, but as he jested in the Comedy of Clocks, they were so many,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She looked at me with an expression of terror in her eyes, as if my words had stabbed her to her heart, but did not answer, and a moment later she could not answer had she wanted to, for heart-broken sobs choked her voice, but she beckoned to me to follow her to the front porch and there she pointed her trembling finger in the direction where they had buried my pal, Peoria Red, and there I could plainly see three small, white crosses.
— from The Trail of the Tramp By A-No. 1, the Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Actual Experiences of His Own Life by A-No. 1

" Squire of Malwood , long silent, could not resist temptation to plunge in.
— from Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various

The mob principle, that every one must be wrong who does not glide with full sails before the wind, influenced all her decisions of every kind; and though in the present case it was obvious, that while Lord Marchdale lived she could not receive the joyful information of his death , she could not impute the silence of Mr. Humphries to any other source than offence at the frigid style of Zorilda's reply to his letter.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

"Do not harm her, my lord, she could not help it."
— from The Hour Will Come: A Tale of an Alpine Cloister. Volumes I and II by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Her inquiries embraced every possible thing that could be known of me—how I stood in the India House, what was the amount of my salary, what it was likely to be hereafter, whether I was thought clever in business, why I had taken country lodgings, why at Kingsland in particular, had I friends in that road, was anybody expected to visit me, did I wish for visitors, would an unexpected call be gratifying or not, would it be better that she sent beforehand, did any body come to see me, was not there a gentleman of the name of Morgan, did he know him, didn't he come to see me, did he know how Mr. Morgan lived, she could never make out how they were maintained, was it true he lived out of the profits of a linen draper's shop in Bishopsgate Street?" Mrs. Godwin's address was 41 Skinner Street.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

Perhaps God had let her walk into this trouble that she might learn she could not do without him!
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

" "You—you-all got me locoed ," said Curly, nervously.
— from Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel by Emerson Hough