"My dear boy, they have only been talking about it for six weeks, and the public are really not equal to the mental strain of having more than one topic every three months.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"My dear boy, they have only been talking about it for six weeks, and the British public are really not equal to the mental strain of having more than one topic every three months.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This mode of taxation, therefore, it seems evident, could never, without the most grievous oppression, produce a revenue nearly equal to what is derived from the present mode without any oppression.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Hence arises a series of phenomena, which, by means of the understanding, produces and renders necessary exactly the same order and continuous connection in the series of our possible perceptions, as is found a priori in the form of internal intuition (time), in which all our perceptions must have place.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It never occurred to him to penetrate into my young mind, to hold converse with my heart; never did he ask himself whether under this sad mask of a lonesome child there were not hidden ardent aspirations quite beyond my age, an all too passionate and restless nature eager to know, which introspectively and morbidly unfolded itself in the silence of secret thoughts and mute ecstasies.
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau

This image-making is, of course, voluntary sometimes; but most images come without volition on our part, and require no effort that we are conscious of.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

On all newspapers sent by Post in Canada, except in the cases hereinbefore expressly provided for, there shall be payable a rate not exceeding two cents each, and when such newspapers are posted in Canada this rate shall in all cases be prepaid by postage stamp affixed to the same.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

As long as they serve their purpose, and require no effort, they may remain inconspicuous and unconsidered.
— from A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

Creation out of nothing is the highest expression of omnipotence: but omnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations, [ 102 ] and consecrating this exemption as the highest power and reality: nothing else than the ability to posit everything real as unreal—everything conceivable as possible: nothing else than the power of the imagination, or of the will as identical with the imagination, the power of self-will.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

What reason had the Jews for hating and persecuting him who had nothing of the rigidity of the schoolman, none of the pride of the philosopher and recluse, nor even the implacable zeal of the ancient prophet to excite the popular wrath; who came only to weep with the sorrowing, to lift up the downtrodden, to save and to heal?
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly