Rather an't please you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal. CHIEF JUSTICE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

'You think me of no more value than the dirt under your feet,' said Bradley to Eugene, speaking in a carefully weighed and measured tone, or he could not have spoken at all.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

However, no positive conclusion can be derived from these researches, chiefly in consequence of the absence of a tolerably correct map of Northern Mongolia."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds!
— 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.

The preceding instances may be objected to, although unreasonably, as drawn from contingencies impossible among us: opinion, in this country, not being likely to enforce abstinence from meats, or to interfere with people for worshipping, and for either marrying or not marrying, according to their creed or inclination.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Our Understanding has then this peculiarity as concerns the Judgement, that in cognition by it the particular is not determined by the universal and 322 cannot therefore be derived from it; but at the same time this particular in the manifold of nature must accord with the universal (by means of concepts and laws) so that it may be capable of being subsumed under it.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

“You were serious when I told you you had got a fortune; and now, for a matter of no moment, you are excited.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Porphyry, a man of no mediocre abilities, does not question that such a way exists; for he believes that Divine Providence could not have left men destitute of this universal way of delivering the soul.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soare; Not to know mee argues your selves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Monism emancipates man in general from all the self-imposed fetters of the maxims of naïve morality, and from all the externally imposed maxims of speculative Metaphysicians.
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

For this purpose the three brigades stationed in the mountains of New Mexico were to be reënforced by the troops from Cuba and Porto Rico and the two Florida regiments.
— from Banzai! by Parabellum by Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

“At the least, maid or no maid, there will be fighting in it, and cattle to divide when the fighting is done.”
— from Nada the Lily by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

We have to take into account also that when the rotary movement had settled down into one plane, it would be most active at the distance of the region of greatest density of the nebula from its centre; in fact it would be instituted at that region and be, therefore, most active there; and then the most active part of the matter would be in the form of a rotating ring, still surrounded by an immense mass of nebulous matter, both inwards and outwards, to which it would gradually communicate its own motion, until the whole mass would rotate, in one direction, on an axis.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

Outside Gommecourt, a slight lynchet near the enemy line was prepared for at least a dozen such posts invisible from any part of our line and not easily to be picked out by photograph, and so placed as to sweep at least a mile of No Man's Land.
— from The Old Front Line by John Masefield

I refer to Mr. C. J. Maynard, of Newtonville, Massachusetts, who has furnished me with a graphic description of his meeting with, and the capture of, the crocodile while engaged in his ornithological pursuits during the year 1867.
— from Four Months in a Sneak-Box A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

Like many other nervous men of genius, he was a light sleeper, and he liked to be up and about early; but it was only for a ramble among the books again.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

How can they help their parents marrying or not marrying?”
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

[Pg 197] which here and there brave the horrors and dangers of a plague-stricken town, the few whose integrity of life wins the respect of people unattached to the Society, we find ourselves confronting a general body of men of no moral or spiritual distinction.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe