I mean those, which I have in the precedent Chapter specified: as That men shall Judge of what is lawfull and unlawfull, not by the Law it selfe, but by their own private Judgements; That Subjects sinne in obeying the Commands of the Common-wealth, unlesse they themselves have first judged them to be lawfull: That their Propriety in their riches is such, as to exclude the Dominion, which the Common-wealth hath over the same: That it is lawfull for Subjects to kill such, as they call Tyrants: That the Soveraign Power may be divided, and the like; which come to be instilled into the People by this means.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“Prince, if the reading is stopped, you and I will quarrel.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, notably Paris.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But it was the negation of light; objects were presented to my eyes, if I may say so, without any medium, in such a manner that if there had been a prism in the room I should have seen no colours represented in it.
— from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen

The peasantry in the region I speak of had admirably good manners.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

The favorite music was "Pussy in the Rainbarrel;" it served for a half dozen different dances.
— from On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way by R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher) Woodward

The air, fresh, life-giving, coming over the great forests and the mighty river, was pouring into the room in streams, and Tayoga and Willet were facing it, in order that they might receive it straight upon their foreheads.
— from The Hunters of the Hills by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

At one point in the road I suddenly heard a pistol shot ring out in the air.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

Biassou raised his hand, and, as if by enchantment, the tumult was stilled, and each negro returned to his place in the ranks in silence.
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo

Where are you?” cried a sweet voice from the terrace, and, running up the slopes, Isabel flattened her nose against the window, peering into the room in search of me.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

In others again, we should perhaps trace in the deposition under the sacred mound of hundreds of spear and arrow-heads, copper axes, and other weapons of war, a ceremonial perpetuated in the rude Indian symbolism of burying the tomahawk or war-hatchet.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

The shyest persons in the room "I suppose it's because they are not used to going to parties; neither am I, for that matter, but then I'm not so much used as they are to not going."
— from Miss Muffet's Christmas Party by Samuel McChord Crothers

One generation does not learn much from its predecessors in this respect; it seems to have been intended that each should acquire its own experience.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various