'Absolutely nothing!' said the doctor.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Ideas are not segregated, they do not form an isolated island.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art —It is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by halves.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“Now,” said the doctor, “you are properly horsed, as we used to say, and now, for a little more flogging of these fine hard, rosy mounts,” and he lasciviously caressed them before applying the rod.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Ye shall lack none, said the damosel.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

On your word, now?’ said the Doctor,—which he had always made a very grave appeal to the honour of us boys.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Such, however, is not the case when a religious belief is secretly undermined by doctrines which may be termed negative, since they deny the truth of one religion without affirming that of any other.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Mr. Bolton was not sorry to divert the talk from his own affairs, and he did not think it worth while to tell his family of a performance that very day which was entirely characteristic of him.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

From all this the following facts stand out: (1) that whilst British Craft Masonry traced its origin to the operative guilds of masons, the Freemasons of France from 1737 onwards placed the origin of the Order in crusading chivalry; (2) that it was amongst these Freemasons that the upper degrees known as the Scottish Rite arose; and (3) that, as we shall now see, these degrees clearly suggest Templar inspiration.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

I must lie down now like the rest, and give up, for we shall never see the day again.”
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

Folk in medieval Europe were taught that their highest obligation was to God or, as they would have phrased it, to the Church; that the Church could at any time dispense them from any obligation to king or nation; that the Church could even make the king, the symbol of the nation, stand three days in the snow outside the Pope's door at Canossa.
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Some teamsters spoil their cattle, and bring them out in the spring miserably poor, and nearly strained to death.
— from Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

He was asked if he had not promised during the Truce negotiations so to direct matters that the Catholics with time might obtain public exercise of their religion.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-19 by John Lothrop Motley

It was not simple to determine the dimensions of a patch of shimmering light flashes from a boat in motion.
— from Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster

Its author, acquainted with the discontents of the army, did not seem to despair of impelling the officers to the desired point.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

It is not over the plain before Troy that the river now flows; its waters have edged away far towards the north, since the day that “divine Scamander” (whom the gods call Xanthus) went down to do battle for Ilion, “with Mars, and Phoebus, and Latona, and Diana glorying in her arrows, and Venus the lover of smiles.”
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

In the first place, they proceeded gradually, but not slowly, to destroy everything of strength which did not derive its principal nourishment from the immediate pleasure of the Court.
— from Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches by Edmund Burke

"God will bear witness to my innocence—" "And I am quite certain that I did not steal the dish," said Peter trembling, "and yet I am afraid of the trial!"
— from The Poniard's Hilt; Or, Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

ue no se trata de matar a nadie... ¡vaya!
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós