In the upper classes one sees many touchingly beautiful traits; my own mother has told me of such, and I could mention several.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Now it appears, that in the original frame of our mind, our strongest attention is confined to ourselves; our next is extended to our relations and acquaintance; and it is only the weakest which reaches to strangers and indifferent persons.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The sun shone yellow on its grey head, reminding me of summer; and I cannot say why, but all at once a gush of child’s sensations flowed into my heart.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts—a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be,— "Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Incidentally we may notice that the rich man often shows an inflexible correctness of conduct.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniment, though it may be “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corpse to the ramparts we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O’er the grave where our hero we buried.”
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Page 484 It must be remembered, that since the revolution, until the period we are speaking of, the influence of the crown had been always employed in supporting the ministers of state, and in carrying on the public business according to their opinions.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

San Diego was a kind of Rome: not the Rome of the time when the cunning Romulus laid out its walls with a plow, nor of the later time when, bathed in its own and others’ blood, it dictated laws to the world—no, it was a Rome of our own times with the difference that in place of marble monuments and colosseums it had its monuments of sawali and its cockpit of nipa.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

All the members of society are in ceaseless stir and transformation.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Hilary calls it a meeting of saints, and its canons have found their way into the authoritative collections; yet its chief work was to confirm the deposition of Athanasius and to draw up creeds in opposition to the Nicene.
— from The Arian Controversy by Henry Melvill Gwatkin

As I wandered about the Mezquita, the two creeds seemed to formulate themselves more distinctly for me: one, soaring and idealistic, channel for the loftiest aspirations of the soul, the other a magnificent step forward from the lower forms of worship about it in the East, nevertheless limited, so far and not beyond, not cleaving to the impossible, to the unattainable.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

as heir to his father, but his right to the Crown of England was by no means of such an indefeasible character.
— from A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick

"I told you before," she said, "I loved her like one of my own sisters, and I can tell you no more: and she knows it; for one day she was taken ill, and fainted, and we put her upon one of our beds, and got her everything we could think of ourselves, and let nobody else wait upon her ; and when she revived she said to my brother, 'These are my sisters—I am sure they are!
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

I always illustrate my own stories, and I can draw your face from memory.
— from Class of '29 by Orrie Lashin

Every age has its modes of speech, and its cast of thought; which, though easily explained when there are many books to be compared with each other, become sometimes unintelligible and always difficult, when there are no parallel passages that may conduce to their illustration.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson