Nothing, so far as physics is concerned, except immediate data of sense: certain patches of colour, sounds, tastes, smells, etc., with certain spatio-temporal relations.
— from Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

It would be almost true to affirm that the fall of man from primeval integrity, consists essentially in dyspepsia, and that every descendant of Adam and Eve is a dyspeptic.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Mr. Parasyte," I continued, earnestly, "I desire to stay at the Institute.
— from Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student by Oliver Optic

Even thus, growing in as lavish abundance as any weed, the Fringed Gentian still preserved in collective expanse, its delicate, its distinctly aristocratic bearing.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle