" "No! he wearied me; he was too fond: he would live in Paris, and not in my country; that was not agreeable to me.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nothing is more vigilant and inventive than our passions; and nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

In these impious fables, a physical and not inelegant meaning is contained; for they would denote that the celestial, most exalted, and ethereal nature—that is, the fiery nature, which produces all things by itself—is destitute of that part of the body which is necessary for the act of generation by conjunction with another.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ If by six in the morning the four thousand piastres are not in my hands, by seven o’clock the Count Albert will have ceased to live .”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This abuse, though not perhaps a necessary, it must be acknowledged, is a very natural effect of such taxes.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Oh! that which is frightful—frightful to think of, is, that I have had my daughter near me during a whole day—yes, that day, forever accursed, on which I took her to the farm; that day when all the treasures of her angelic mind were revealed to me in all their purity, and nothing in my heart whispered, 'She is your daughter!' nothing—nothing!
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 by Eugène Sue

There was a passenger, a native Indian merchant, and his servants, with, as was believed, his harem below in the after-cabins, for nobody ever had seen them; but the Arab rais of the vessel and several more being washed off when she struck, the other Mussulmans took to the only boat they had, and got 423 ashore, leaving the two Englishmen with the passenger.
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples

Various delays also take place after we have obtained a promise; and nothing is more heartbreaking than to be forced to beg for the very thing which you already have been promised.
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing, therefore, is more natural than to imagine that the idea of God is a verbal, intellectual proposition; and nothing is more misleading.
— from The Idea of God in Early Religions by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

No state can go much further than Germany has gone along the lines of state interference, guidance, and control of the personal affairs of its people, and nothing is more surprising about the whole matter than the general acceptance in America and in England of such legislation as having proved altogether successful.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

When I was sick He came to the door of my heart, and I promised to serve Him, but I broke that promise, and now I must die without Him."
— from Moody's Anecdotes And Illustrations Related in his Revival Work by the Great Evangelist by Dwight Lyman Moody

The Sierras of California are sublime, but their great peaks are not isolated monarchs like those of the Cascades.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

From this combined print another negative is made so that any number of these caricature prints can be made without extra trouble.
— from Photographic Amusements, Ninth Edition Including A Description of a Number of Novel Effects Obtainable with the Camera by Walter E. Woodbury