The most fateful point of difference between being a rationalist and being a pragmatist is now fully in sight.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

5 O vast Rondure, swimming in space, Cover'd all over with visible power and beauty, Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual darkness, Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon and countless stars above, Below, the manifold grass and waters, animals, mountains, trees, With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophetic intention, Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Whether any ought to preach it in this or that Place, is not found in Scripture, 254 , 255 .
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

Patriotism is not found in such theatrical eccentricities, any more than it is found in the constant courage of those who defend.
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

"It is now late at night, not an hour ago I finished a little poem of about 400 lines, entitled a Journey to Maryland—being the Sum of my adventures—it begins 'From that fam'd town where Hudson's flood—unites with Stream perhaps as good; Muse has your bard begun to roam—& I intend to write a terrible Satire upon certain vicious persons of quality in New York—who have also used me ill—and [Pg xxiii] print it next fall it shall contain 5 or 600 lines.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

Neither of these women is equal to Pico in natural force, if she [pg 202] had but the same advantages of culture and environment.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

If in the diagram of this skull we select a number of points obviously cor­re­spon­ding {754} to points where our rectangular co-ordinates intersect particular bones or other recognisable features in our typical crocodile, we shall easily discover that the lines joining these points in Notosuchus fall into such a co-ordinate network as that which is represented in Fig.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

"For my own part I never find it so."
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A second proof of the same principle is not found in Saadia.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

At the present day, if you ask the average theatre-goer about the merits of the play that he has lately witnessed, he will praise it not for its stately speeches nor its clever repartee, but because its presentation was "so natural."
— from The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

The place is noted for its salubrity; and though the house has been dismantled, and has remained vacant for some time, yet I hope we will find it fitted up comfortably again; for I have written down to an upholsterer of Baymouth to send in some furniture, and I have also written to a certain genius of all trades, called the 'professor,' to go over and see it all arranged, and do what else is needed to be done for our reception."
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth