One of the first members of our circle was Liputin, an elderly provincial official, and a great liberal, who was reputed in the town to be an atheist.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As one portion of the bodily tissue is differentiated so that it can be the hand and the hand only, another, the eye, and so on, all taken together making the organism, so one individual is supposed to be differentiated for the exercise of the mechanical operations of society, another for those of a statesman, another for those of a scholar, and so on.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

One comfort is, we’re free now, and needn’t waste any more of our precious time doing sentry-go.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

For in the former case bodies need only be thought by means of ontological predicates (pure concepts of Understanding), e.g. substance, in order to cognise the proposition a priori ; but in the latter case the empirical concept of a body (as a movable thing in space) must lie at the basis of the proposition, although once this basis has been laid down, it may be seen completely a priori that this latter predicate (motion only by external causes) 21 belongs to body.—Thus, as I shall presently show, the principle of the purposiveness of nature (in the manifoldness of its empirical laws) is a transcendental principle.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Yes, I'll tell ye the whole of it—you'll make more out of it heere than I will in a foreign country.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

He had not rushed forward after the manner of other dogs.
— from White Fang by Jack London

I quite grant—I look at the faces of the clerks in my own office, and observe them to be dull, but I don’t know what’s going on beneath.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

These are the Laws of the Refractions made out of Glass into Air, and thence by the third Axiom of the first Part of this Book, the Laws of the Refractions made out of Air into Glass are easily derived.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

That sort of thing is not to be found every day among the men of our times.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was morbidly sensitive, as a man of our age should be.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They made these requests with the manner of olden time, when money seemed to flow from a full fountain, and the man was very polite, thinking he had gained profitable customers.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

To any one Achensee would have looked surpassingly lovely on that clear moonlight night, but to Flora Adair its beauty spoke with one of those voices "which set the inmost music of our souls a-going," singing a song which requires no words, yet breathing a prayer to heaven to be made more worthy of ministering to the object of our love, and to be enabled to make him happy.
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan

We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

Such a government must, from its nature, be hostile to all governments of whatever form; but, above all, to those which are most strongly contrasted with its own vicious structure, and which afford to their subjects the best security for the maintenance of order, liberty, justice, and religion."
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

And he dumped the mortar out of the hod on to a board near the men who were building the wall.
— from The Doers by William John Hopkins

e we shall meet many of our old friends once more, and see what our hero did when new difficulties confronted him.
— from Ralph on the Overland Express; Or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer by Allen Chapman

One on Time; two on Zeno’s System of Natural Philosophy; four books of the Explanations of Heraclitus; one on Sensation; one on Art; one addressed to Democritus; one to Aristarchus; one to Herillus; two on Desire; one entitled Archæology; one on the Gods; one on the Giants; one on Marriage; one on Poets; three on Duty; one on Good Counsel; one on Favour; one called Exhortatory; one on Virtues; one on Natural Ability; one on Gorgippus; one on Enviousness; one on Love; one on Freedom; one called the Art of Love; one on Honour; one on Glory; The Statesman; one on Counsel; one on Laws; one on Deciding as a Judge; one on the Way of Life; three on Reason; one on the Chief Good; one on the Beautiful; one on Actions; one on Knowledge; one on Kingly Power; one on Friendship; one on Banquets; one on the Principle that Virtue is the same in Man and Woman; one on the Wise Man Employing Sophisms; one on Apophthegms; two books of Conversations; one on Pleasure; one [326] on Properties; one on Doubtful Things; one on Dialectics; one on Modes; one on Categorems.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Having finished a brief address, I then walked forward to the very middle of the circle, and laid down before them a bundle of stripes of red calico and pieces of white calico, a number of fish-hooks, knives, etc., etc., requesting the two Chiefs to divide my offering of goodwill among the Tribes assembled, and also the pile of food presented to us, as a token of my love and friendship to them all.
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton