I am quite unmanned:" and when the Hermit says, that he had "beheld the ocean in wildest rage, yet ne'er before saw a storm so dreadful, such horrid flashes of lightning, and such claps of thunder, were never in my remembrance."
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He longed to hint to her that not here lay her vocation; that a woman’s power and charm reside in mystery, not in muscular rant.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Fraticelli’s admirable Life is now in many respects out of date.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

No quality of human nature is more remarkable, both in itself and in its consequences, than that propensity we have to sympathize with others, and to receive by communication their inclinations and sentiments, however different from, or even contrary to our own.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Mamma stayed all night in my room, and it seemed that she did not wish to mar by recrimination those hours, so different from anything that I had had a right to expect; for when Françoise (who guessed that something extraordinary must have happened when she saw Mamma sitting by my side, holding my hand and letting me cry unchecked) said to her: "But, Madame, what is little Master crying for?"
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I am so pleased to know all that I would not run the risk of grieving her by telling her that I knew her secret, but my dear friend, either more open or more curious, has not imitated my reserve.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Nothing is more rare than a personal act.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Nevertheless I must repeat the remark which I made in the case of figures, 79 and maintain that there are native antidotes to the number and boldness of metaphors, in well-timed displays of strong feeling, and in unaffected sublimity, because these have an innate power by the dash of their movement of sweeping along and carrying all else before them.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Poinsinet, who was hearthless and homeless, as they say, spent the night in my room, and in the morning I gave him two cups of chocolate and some money wherewith to get a lodging.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In concluding these brief notes, I may remark that the wide-spread idea of the medicinal virtue of these concretions would lead us to suppose that there is some foundation for their reputation.”— J.R.A.S. , S.B. , No. 4, pp. 56–58.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Morocco Royal Armed Forces (Forces Armees Royales, FAR): Royal Moroccan Army (includes Air Defense), Navy (includes Marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawyiya al Malakiya Marakishiya; Force Aerienne Royale Marocaine) (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But now I must run away.
— from The Governess by Julie M. Lippmann

The fact was noted in my report and now his conduct out here has been fully up to sample.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

In fact, a cathedral in its fresh estate seems to have been like a pavilion of the sunset, all purple and gold; whereas now it more resembles deepest and grayest twilight.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And as whatever may be original or novel in this book has been obtained at the Zoological Gardens, I now invite my readers to accompany me in imagination to the Ophidarium, where we may learn how that little ring snake was able to swallow his prodigious mouthful without separating it limb from limb, as a carnivorous mammal would divide the lamb it has killed.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

Nothing is more ridiculous than to make an author a dictator, as the schools have done Aristotle.
— from Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by Ben Jonson