A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed them—those acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and for ever.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Sometimes they would fix upon my nose, or forehead, where they stung me to the quick, smelling very offensively; and I could easily trace that viscous matter, which, our naturalists tell us, enables those creatures to walk with their feet upwards upon a ceiling.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Opposite the heads of the gastrocnemius, the peronaeal and posterior tibial nerves give off each a branch, both of which descend along the mesial line of the calf, and joining near the upper end of the tendo Achillis, the single nerve here, N, Plate 65, becomes superficial to the fascia, and thence descends behind the outer ankle to gain the external border of the foot, where it divides into cutaneous branches and others to be distributed to the three or four outer toes.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

And even grace is only the type of glory, for it is not the ultimate end.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

There is a myth connected with one of these mountain nymphs, the unfortunate Echo.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

He was not at all jockeyish to look at, though; he had a round black head and a well-trimmed black beard, bright eyes like a bird’s; he jingled money in his pockets; he jangled a great gold watch chain; and he never turned up except dressed just too much like a gentleman to be one.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

For there half arose a thought in me that those philosophers, whom they call Academics, were wiser than the rest, for that they held men ought to doubt everything, and laid down that no truth can be comprehended by man: for so, not then understanding even their meaning, I also was clearly convinced that they thought, as they are commonly reported.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"And now, tell us exactly what you have learnt, Miss Joyce," Bernard asked.
— from The Secret Service Submarine: A Story of the Present War by Guy Thorne

Nevertheless, they understood each other perfectly.
— from The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks; Or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. Frey

And such has always been the nature of good, supreme art; the "Iliad," the "Odyssey," the stories of Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, the Hebrew prophets, the psalms, the gospel parables, the story of Sakya Muni, and the hymns of the Vedas: all transmit very elevated feelings, and are nevertheless quite comprehensible now to us, educated or uneducated, as they were comprehensible to the men of those times, long ago, who were even less educated than our laborers.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Brewster, Sir David, a teacher of Charles Lowell, i. 7. Briggs, Charles Frederick (Harry Franco), i. 110; J. R. L. makes the acquaintance of, 114; criticises A Legend of Brittany , 129; letter to, from M. W., 129; projects Broadway Chronicle , 130; condemns customary marriage ceremonies, 131, note; starts the Broadway Journal , 156; seeks contributions from J. R. L. and M. W. L., 156; offers to make a contract with J. R. L., 157; upon compensation, 158; objects to J. R. L.’s first article, 159; abandons his paper, 160; corresponds with J. R. L. regarding Poe, 163-166; receives a visit from J. R. L. and M. W. L., 173; J. R. L. to, on his anticipated child, 179; J. R. L. to, after the birth of Blanche, 181; is amused over J. R. L.’s French exercise, 182, and note; J. R. L. to, on Anti-Slavery, 183; and on the training of Blanche, 185; is notified of A Fable for Critics , 238; asks after it, 239; has it offered to him as a New Year’s gift, 240; accepts it, and proposes distribution of profits, 242; writes J. R. L. to retain passage on Miss Fuller, 245; does not like Bryant, 245; hears of Sir Launfal , 266; comments on The Changeling , 279; writes to J. R. L. of Willis and Mrs. Clemm, 282; begs J. R. L. not to undertake editorship, 287; J. R. L. writes to him of The Nooning , 300; is editor of Putnam’s Monthly , 348; looks to J. R. L. for contributions, 350; receives Our Own , 351; J. R. L. to, on magazines popularity, 352; on Cambridge Thirty Years Ago , 354; prints M. W. L’s verses, 358; J. R. L. to, on the death of M. W. L., 360; on his own appointment at Harvard, 376.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

And so grace itself is but the figure of glory, for it is not the ultimate end.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

There is no principle, however natural to us even from childhood, which may not be made to pass for a false impression either of education or of sense.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

Even if they should have attained the eighth grade with its dizzy heights of learning, the little teaching they have received in civics has not touched upon either of the most vital problems of our day, the labor movement or the woman movement.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

In fact, does not the undertaking entered into by the whole body of the nation bind it to provide for the security of the least of its members with as much care as for that of all the rest?
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Well, ownest, good bye till tomorrow, when perhaps thy husband will feel a necessity to use even such a wretched medium as words, to tell thee how he loves thee.
— from Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne