In consequence, there is not only not a decrease in the utility of feminine testimony; also its reliability is very great.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

(This fact must not be confounded with the needs of neurotics and decadents; in their case, of course, there is a craving for pepper —even for cruelty.)
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If two species belonging to two distinct though allied genera, had both produced a large number of new and divergent forms, it is conceivable that these might approach each other so closely that they would have all to be classed under the same genus; and thus the descendants of two distinct genera would converge into one.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

“Thank God,” said Mr. Lorry, clasping his hands, “that no one near and dear to me is in this dreadful town to-night.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But when that word was uttered, it was a case of now or never; and Duncan, with something of a white face to be sure, thrust himself between.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

He had with him a great number of Northmen and Danes from Ireland and Scotland, together with a great many Celtic Cymri and Britons, and the Scottish King Constantine was also in his army.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

It thus happens that when an unusually large number of new arrivals disturbs for a time some existing economic condition, the community is startled by those immediately affected with an outcry against the intruding force, and it is then only on investigation that it becomes apparent that while indeed a comparatively few individuals suffer, and even they but temporarily, the new element is of far-reaching benefit to the community at large.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

We accept the names of newspapers and debating societies as being the “Argus,” without perhaps quite realising who was [
— from A Book of Myths by Jean Lang

It is a prevalent idea among men that the marriage ceremony removes all restraint from the exercise of the sexual function; this not only neutralizes and destroys all sentiment of true love, which seeks for the happiness of the object it loves, but breeds hatred and contempt.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

That we spoke at all might rightly be called a work of nature, opera naturale , as Dante said long ago; but that we spoke thus or thus, cosi o cosi , that, as the same Dante said, depended on our pleasure—that was our work.
— from Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various

And of course we are not gifted with that insight into the minds of individuals, which enables us to determine before the event, when it is that an assent is really such, and when not, or not a deeply rooted assent.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

[Pg 249] should be something more than a mere notion of names and dates.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

I was thinking what a pity it was there was no one near and dear to you who could tell you what wretched taste you had in neckties."
— from Step Lively! A Carload of the Funniest Yarns that Ever Crossed the Footlights by George Niblo