As Miss Lamb had "enjoyed" the story, this speech was not exactly grateful or complimentary.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

With the freedom of travel now existing, groups of men of the same kindred can join together and establish communal habits and customs.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Mrs. Barry had her table decorated,” said Anne, who was not entirely guiltless of the wisdom of the serpent, “and the minister paid her an elegant compliment.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[42] His philosophy, if the word is to be used, was, like Shakespeare's own, the immediate product of the wondering and meditating mind; and such thoughts as that celebrated one, 'There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so,' surely needed no special training to produce them.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

When going anywhere with her husband, she should put on her ornaments, and without his consent she should not either give or accept invitations, or attend marriages and sacrifices, or sit in the company of female friends, or visit the temples of the Gods.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

no (Chrysostom replies) non est grave, o homo !
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul’s calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue’s prize: A better would you fix?
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

And it is for this reason that the guilty do not exhibit gestures of resignation.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

There is therefore no empirical ground of proof which would force a judgement of taste upon any one.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

They are not exactly guilty of fabricating, but they set up an artificial text in the sense that, in order to lose as little as possible, they have collected and united what originally were variations—the revisions, in short, of the original editions.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

That this inflexibleness making me desperate, I resolved to add to my former fault, by giving directions that she should not either go or correspond out of the house, till I returned from M. Hall; well knowing, that if she were at full liberty, I must for ever lose her.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

You women are all that is best in humanity; you are not even guilty of your faults, for they come through us.” H2 anchor ADDENDUM
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He spoke with unaffected honesty; for indeed his plunge into the society of Salem Chapel had given him a shock not easily got over, and the appearance of a being of his own species, among all these excellent poulterers and grocers, was a relief unspeakable; and then he added, “May I walk with you, if you are going to walk?”
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Here is no exaggerated gesture of grief, no feigned expression of surprise or false note to make us doubt the truth of the tragedy that has befallen the house of Celano.
— from The Story of Assisi by Lina Duff Gordon

It does nothing, either good or bad; "it only knows."
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

I do not know if there is much to be learned at Athens that Erskine has not either gleaned or muddled , but I will try and ascertain where the infamy began.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

You have never eaten grapes off a vine, nor figs warm with the kiss of the sun on their cheeks; and by grapes you mean raisins brown and dried, and by figs withered fruit packed in wooden boxes.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Knowledge in divine things is important; on many accounts it is so; but it does not ensure goodness of heart, without which we cannot be saved; we may have "all knowledge," yet perish in our sins.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

80 Hard by, a Cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged Okes, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set Of Hearbs, and other Country Messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses; And then in haste her Bowre she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the Sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead, 90 Som times with secure delight The up-land Hamlets will invite, When the merry Bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd shade; And young and old com forth to play On a Sunshine Holyday, Till the live-long day-light fail, Then to the Spicy Nut-brown Ale, 100 With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat, She was pincht, and pull'd she sed, And he by Friars Lanthorn led Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To ern his Cream-bowle duly set, When in one night, ere glimps of morn, His shadowy Flale hath
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton