Out of the powerful and wholly free heroes of Israel’s history they fashioned, according to their changing needs, either wretched bigots and hypocrites or men entirely “godless.” They reduced every great event to the idiotic formula: “obedient or disobedient to God.”—They went a step further: the “will of God” (in other words some means necessary for preserving the power of the priests) had to be determined —and to this end they had to have a “revelation.”
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

sarka men gar ex haimatos genesthai rhaston; ei gar eis tosouton auto pachyneien hê physis, hôs systasin tina schein kai mêket' einai rhyton, hê prôtê kai neopagês houtôs an eiê sarx; ostoun d' hina genêtai, pollou men deitai chronou, pollês d' ergasias kai metabolês tô haimati.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

En cuanto al sentimiento religioso, el gaucho estaba tan lejos del árabe, que es imposible hallar entre ellos punto alguno de contacto.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

And yet in this account of our troubles,–because I am diligently intent upon lessening them,–I have not included other quite different, most accursed items, but have left out riches, e. g., entirely, that smart-money for so many thousand gashes and fractures of the breast, and in fact millions of wounds which would make our riddled self absolutely transparent, were it not fortunately clothed from head to foot in English court-plaster....
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

Nor did he recognize that, for the French, the desire to emigrate required even greater encouragement than the commercial instinct.
— from The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby

When demagogues become the fashionable leading party of a community, the worst scribblers, whose money renders editors good enough to praise what they did not read, or could not understand, are generally read by a plurality of apes, who buy the new works, in order to be able, at the first evening party, to echo in the ears of a belle, the praising criticism of their newspapers.
— from Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America by Joseph Rocchietti

I stepped out into the road with renewed energy, glad enough to be moving to any place that would take me from the sight and smell of such scenes.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

Every line, every rood, every gable, every tower, has some story of the past present in it.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida