thou know’st not gold’s effect: Tell me her father’s name, and ’tis enough; For I will board her, though she chide as loud As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are really beneath the comprehension of those who have not made themselves masters, as I have, of the intricate and arduous study of politics; I would rather keep my seat, and intend doing so.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Its fundamental belief must be precisely that society is NOT allowed to exist for its own sake, but only as a foundation and scaffolding, by means of which a select class of beings may be able to elevate themselves to their higher duties, and in general to a higher EXISTENCE: like those sun-seeking climbing plants in Java—they are called Sipo Matador,—which encircle an oak so long and so often with their arms, until at last, high above it, but supported by it, they can unfold their tops in the open light, and exhibit their happiness.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The course of warfare on the sea gave rise, as always, to grievances of neutrals against the English for the seizures of their ships in the American trade.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Madam de Warens was so much incommoded with the first smell of soup or meat, as almost to occasion fainting; from this she slowly recovered, talking meantime, and never attempting to eat for the first half hour.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

While confined in the room, she is not allowed to eat fish, flesh, or salt, or see any animals, especially a cat, dog, or crow.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I have been told that even those who are not of our Church nevertheless amongst themselves expressly forbid the name of God to be used in common discourse, nor so much even by way of interjection, exclamation, assertion of a truth, or comparison; and I think them in the right: upon what occasion soever we call upon God to accompany and assist us, it ought always to be done with the greatest reverence and devotion.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He will not ask that eagerness for knowledge be interdicted and rooted out; but his single, all powerful ambition to know as thoroughly and as fully as possible, will soothe him and moderate all that is strenuous in his circumstances.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Bazarov's bad manners had impressed her unpleasantly for the first minutes of the visit like a bad smell or a discordant sound; but she saw at once that he was nervous, and that even flattered her.
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Martensen, Christian Ethics, 62, 63— “ God is the perfect unity of the ethically necessary and the ethically free ” ; “ God cannot do otherwise than will his own essential nature. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

There, 20 to 30 miles away, framed by the roadway, are the snow-capped Tetons, with Jackson Lake, luminous in reflected light, nestled against the east face.
— from Creation of the Teton Landscape: The Geologic Story of Grand Teton National Park by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

Let us remark, however, that we would not attach the educational franchise to property as such: the proprietor of the house, whether a small house or a large one, would require to be the bona fide inhabitant of the dwelling which he occupied, for at least a considerable portion of every year.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

Naturally, the explosion did not tend to soothe our nerves, and the entire family remained together in a large hall for the rest of the night.
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland

“Make no attempt to escape, for so surely as you do, you will be cut to pieces on the rocks, and the sharks await outside.”
— from Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

Pliny v. 4, 30, numbers among the subject peoples of Africa “all Gaetulia as far as the Niger and the Ethiopian frontier,” which points nearly to Timbuctoo.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

Did He not deny woman, the earth, eternal nature and the eternal fruitfulness of things and beings?
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

As usual in such cases, the result was a total upsetting in the mind of the injured one of all orthodox notions of human nature and the eternal fitness of things.
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

It is just as manifest that revelation alone does not suffice, that there is needed also the enduring forum of a teaching Church, which in the course of centuries gives expression to truth with infallible, binding authority.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat