Those powerful rays exhale eternity... Farewell, Teréntievna!...
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Sed postquam Roma egressus est, fertur saepe eo tacitus respiciens postremo dixisse: ‘urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem invenerit.’
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

For myself I would, however, take higher ground, for I believe there exists, and I feel within me, an instinct for truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, and that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Mr Pinch regarded everything exposed for sale with great delight, and was particularly struck by the itinerant cutlery, which he considered of the very keenest kind, insomuch that he purchased a pocket knife with seven blades in it, and not a cut (as he afterwards found out) among them.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Thiers makes a pleasant railway excursion either from Vichy or Clermont-Ferrand.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

The law of nature is here, as elsewhere, binding, and no powerful results ever ensue from the trivial exercise of high endowments.
— from Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 The Advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements by Various