As I have said before, I had no aptitude for mathematics; the different points were not explained to me as fully as I wished.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Cicero said: "What others give to public shows and entertainments, nay, even to mental and bodily rest, I give to the study of philosophy."
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I will reply as soon as I hear your words—and you will then note exactly the moment at which my reply reaches you."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

for coming, by a strange coincidence, in the way of this kidnapper, who was selling the maid, he straightway at a glance fell in love with this girl, and made up his mind to purchase her and make her his second wife; entering an oath not to associate with any male friends, nor even to marry another girl.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

In New England the majority acts by representatives in the conduct of the public business of the State; but if such an arrangement be necessary in general affairs, in the townships, where the legislative and administrative action of the government is in more immediate contact with the subject, the system of representation is not adopted.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The utmost that the most learned men of science know in physics, chemistry, physiology is not enough to make all these consequences and connections perceptible.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Cycnæâ voce loquentem) Nuper eum, turba & magnatum audiret in Aulâ.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Say good-bye to an imaginary person whom you expect to see again tomorrow; then to a dear friend you never expect to meet again.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

But this method of treatment is not essential to mathematics, and in fact each proposition introduces quite a new space construction, which in itself is independent of those which precede it, and indeed can be completely comprehended from itself, quite independently of them, in the pure intuition or perception of space, in which the most complicated construction is just as directly evident as the axiom; but of this more fully hereafter.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Captain Dunning, who was already boiling with rage, needed no encouragement to make an immediate attack on the stranger, neither did his men require an order; they plunged their oars into the water, ran right into the other boat, sprang to their feet, seized lances, harpoons, and knives, and in another moment would have been engaged in a deadly struggle had not an unforeseen event occurred to prevent the fray.
— from The Red Eric by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He always had some guns on the ship, but not enough to make a fight with, if the other vessel had a whole lot, as privateers always did.
— from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by William John Hopkins

To our great satisfaction we discovered that gores were no enigma to Matilda, and she and Aunt Theresa good-naturedly undertook to initiate us into the mysteries of dressmaking.
— from Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

In spite of the fact that in numbers the home women far exceed the wage-earners, the value of their output has been ignored, and as to the conditions under which it is produced, not even the most advanced and progressive statisticians have been able to arrive at any estimate.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

It is not easy to mention anything on which the enormous apparatus of human life can be said to depend.
— from The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

We discovered far more wells than we had been led to believe existed, but not enough to make a flank attack a very serious menace.
— from War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt

Not even the most Americanised would descend to wear the vile dress hat of civilisation.
— from Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

But my strongest objection to your theory is that it does not explain the manifold adaptations in structure in every organic being—for instance in a Picus for climbing trees and catching insects—or in a Strix for catching animals at night, and so on ad infinitum.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Jefferson continued: "In the length and breadth of this Union there is not a man, not even the most ardent Republican, who has not implicit faith in the flawless quality of your patriotism and in your personal wisdom; but, and possibly unknown to you, sir, the extreme and high-handed measures, coupled with the haughty personal arrogance, of our Secretary of the Treasury have inspired a widespread belief, which is permeating even his personal friends, that he entertains subtle and insidious monarchical designs, is plotting to convert our little Republic into a kingdom.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

But to return to my guardian; he was a man to think and act for himself, and as far from the magazine and newspaper existence that most Americans, in a moral sense, pass, as any man could be."
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper