A thing that fills us with astonishment, almost, if it were possible, with incredulity,—for truly it is not easy to understand that sane men could ever calmly, with their eyes open, believe and live by such a set of doctrines.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

does not explain to us in detail the nature of the process.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Nature, always true and consistent, here even naïve, exhibits to us openly the inner significance of the act of generation.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Ah, ah!” said he; “I see then how thou wouldst cheat me, thou cursed woman; I know not why I do not eat thee up too, but it is well for thee that thou art a tough old carrion.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

True memory, which we must now endeavour to understand, consists of knowledge of past events, but not of all such knowledge.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

He does not explain to us in detail the nature of the process.
— from The Republic by Plato

For before appealing to experience, we already have all the conditions of the judgment in the concept, from which we have but to elicit the predicate according to the law of contradiction, and thereby to become conscious of the necessity of the judgment, which experience could not even teach us.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Auguste Neander, as he was thereafter known, now entered the University of Halle, where he studied Christian dogmatics under the celebrated Professor Schleiermacher, whose speculations in doctrinal theology verged very closely upon heterodoxy, and who is pronounced by an authority to have been "the greatest theological writer that Germany has produced since Luther, and, indeed, he may be called the founder of modern rationalism on its better side."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

‘Yes; there is a house empty that belongs to me, which I can put you into till it is let, and then, if nothing else turns up, perhaps I shall have another.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In numbers, except those used to indicate elevations on contour Lines or elsewhere, thousands should always be set off by commas.
— from The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction by John L. Ridgway

If Time does nothing else to us on quiet days, he makes us a day older each day.
— from Dominie Dean: A Novel by Ellis Parker Butler

Such were the great and most striking features of the jubilee; but we hardly advanced a single step through the throng which did not exhibit to us some minor trait of national and characteristic revelry.
— from Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1) by Frances Milton Trollope

The balloon mania has already nearly exhausted the utmost resources of absurdity; for M. Poitevin on a donkey—how very like putting butter upon bacon! has failed to attract, and three or four women suspended in the air are now necessary to tempt the curiosity of the Parisian public when a balloon ascends from the Hippodrome.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.—February, 1851.—Vol. II. by Various

There remained but Cairo and Alexandria to visit, and a few days spent at each place exhausts the sights; but we concluded that nothing could be more enjoyable than a three-months' sail upon the Nile, in one's own boat, breathing the remarkably pure and dry air as it comes from the desert, moving day by day from one to another scene of the far past, and at night enjoying the unequalled sunsets, when it seems, as some one has beautifully said, that "the day was slowly dying of its own glory."
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

It would mean that she could not enter the United States, but it would not mean that she could not depart from the Soviet Union if she had a Soviet visa.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

It was Lucy's nature ever to unselfishly bury her own troubles and try to join in the happiness of others.
— from Thankful Rest by Annie S. Swan

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
— from Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Including biographical sketches and anecdotes of Lincoln, Grant, Garrison, Sumner, Chase, Wilson, Greeley, Farragut, Andrew, Colfax, Stanton, Douglass, Buckingham, Sherman, Sheridan, Howard, Phillips and Beecher. by Harriet Beecher Stowe