"Not?" said Emanuel.–"Does not everything happen only once and for the last time?–Do not Autumn and Time, as well as Death, separate us from all?–Does not all part from us, even if we do not part from it?–Time is nothing but a death with softer, thinner sickles; every minute is the autumn of the past one, and the second world will be the spring of a third .—Ah, when I one day retire again from the flowery surface of a second, and when on the heavenly death-day I see the twilight of the memory of two lives,—O in the future lies a groundwork for infinite bliss as well as woe, why does man shrink with awe only before this?"–Victor disputed the immortality of memory.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

It is important for our purposes to discriminate carefully the three kinds of Utility: (1) what is wholly disconnected from the efforts of men, and comes freely from the hand of God; (2) what is mingled with the unpaid efforts of men, so that the satisfaction of the desire comes partly from Nature and partly from unbought effort; and (3) the compound utility that is partly free gift and partly the result of compensated labor.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

He by no means took it for granted that equality in political power must necessarily and properly follow upon emancipation.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron