In th’ interim a crafty chuff approaches, From the depth issued, where they fish for roaches; Who said, Good sirs, some of them let us save, The eel is here, and in this hollow cave You’ll find, if that our looks on it demur, A great waste in the bottom of his fur.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

So that in this direct suffering with another, which rests on no arguments and requires none, is found the one simple origin of loving-kindness, caritas, aγάπη in other words, that virtue whose rule is: Omnes, quantum potes, juva (help all people, as far as lies in your power); and from which all those actions proceed which are prescribed by Ethics under the name of duties of virtue, otherwise called duties of love, or imperfect duties.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

On this ground, from the earliest times until our own, art has been occasionally attacked by moralists, who have felt that it fostered idolatry or luxury or irresponsible dreams.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The mood of levity, of 'I don't care,' is for this world's ills a sovereign and practical anaesthetic.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

“I only let out I didn’t like him.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

In 1619 the Lord Mayor and the Council of London ordered its discontinuance, but the players were able to keep it open on the plea that it was a private house.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The baronet, who had no country tastes of any kind, and no attachment to the estate or to any one living on it, declared that society at Blackwater should never have a second chance of annoying him, and left the place from that moment.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The terms in common use—namely, "the duties of law," and "the duties of virtue," (the latter being also called "duties of love," or "imperfect duties,") are in the [Pg 177] first place faulty because they co-ordinate the genus with the species ; for justice is one of the virtues.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

A figure straight and sinuous, above the middle height, which would have been quite perfect but for being slightly too full, and which struck one before one looked at the face; coloring that was rich to brilliance; abundant, beautiful hair with a glint of lustre on it; deep hazel eyes, the least bit too close together, and features that were good and only just missed being fine Keith had remembered her as beautiful, but as Mrs. Wentworth stood beneath the azure portières, her long, bare arms outstretched, her lips parted in a half-smile of welcome, she was much more striking-looking than Keith's memory had recorded.
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

There can be no philosophic interest in disguising the animal basis of love, or in denying its spiritual sublimations, since all life is animal in its origin and all spiritual in its possible fruits.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It deserves mention that another disaster, equally instructive, but happily not attended with loss of life, occurred in Dublin in 1844 to Mr. Hampton, who about this time made several public and enterprising voyages.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon

ART IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY [Sidenote: Humanism and the Renaissance of Art] The effect of the revived interest in Greek and Roman culture, which, as we have seen, dominated European thought from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, was felt not only in literature and in the outward life of its devotees—in ransacking monasteries for lost manuscripts scripts, in critically studying ancient learning, and in consciously imitating antique behavior—but likewise in a marvelous and many-sided development of art.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

Her voice died out: like one in dreams she sat.
— from Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

The mid-brain gives rise to the third nerve, and has the optic lobes on its dorsal side, but these are hollow, and they are not subdivided by a transverse groove into corpora quadrigemina, as in the rabbit.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I promised her heartily I would not be guilty of letting our intimacy drop, and handed the ladies down to the crush-room, where I saw my father leading Lady Edbury to her carriage, much observed.
— from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6 by George Meredith

The gray clouds looked cold and dark, and the wind was blowing a gale as the stage left the little village of Lowton on its daily trip to the Summit.
— from The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories by Joaquin Miller

If the rounded end of the rod be slightly dipped into the melted fat, and then brought to the surface of the mercury, a small hemispherical particle will attach itself there and speedily congeal, becoming more or less opaque in doing so.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson