But is there dandyism in the brilliant and distinguished circle notwithstanding, dandyism of a more mischievous sort, that has got below the surface and is doing less harmless things than jack-towelling itself and stopping its own digestion, to which no rational person need particularly object?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In the presence of this question a spectre sprang up and replied: “Javert.” Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol shot.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“A son of my old friend, dear,” he cried; “surely you must remember Prince Nicolai Lvovitch?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If Sasha’s error bordered upon crime, they must remember that Sasha had received practically no education; he had been expelled from the high school in the fifth class; he had lost his parents in early childhood, and so had been left at the tenderest age without guidance and good, benevolent influences.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

or if they had committed any act in a hostile manner, that they had, through design rather than under the influence of error from frenzy, so acted, as to cancel their former acts of kindness by recent injuries, more especially when conferred on persons so grateful, and that they would choose to themselves as enemies the Roman people, now in the most flourishing state and most successful in war, whose friendship they had cultivated when they were distressed?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

For the blindness 172 in which superstition places us, which it even imposes on us as an obligation, makes the need of being guided by others, and the consequent passive state of our Reason, peculiarly noticeable.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius / Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat —Nothing so unjust as your ignorant man, who thinks nothing right but what he himself has done.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Our own researches lead us to the conviction that behind the purely mythical aspect of these fairy-faiths there exists a substantial substratum of real phenomena not yet satisfactorily explained by science; that such phenomena have been in the past and are at the present time the chief source of the belief in fairies, that they are the foundation underlying all fairy mythologies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Now let me see if I can construe it: Hic ibat Simois , I know you not; hic est Sigeia tellus , I trust you not; Hic steterat Priami , take heed he hear us not; regia , presume not; celsa senis , despair not.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

She wanted, in spite of the greater delay and the way Olive would wonder, to walk home, because it gave her time to think, and think again, how glad she was (really, positively, now ) that Mr. Ransom was on the wrong side.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James

It was after taps, though only just after, and, whether causing the trouble or not, the man is the responsible party, not the woman.
— from The Deserter by Charles King

"Erit propria pœna," Gubernator sarcasticè respondit, "pro negligente Nasonem ad scholam."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 by Various

At one moment it seemed as if France would have acceded to terms which required from Russia practically no sacrifice; but Napoleon III. yielded to remonstrance from [288] England, coupled with the assurance that England was now able, and quite prepared, to carry on the war alone.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

As respects the expression so often cited, he said his words were " voici la meilleure des républics pour nous ;" distinctly alluding to the difficulties and embarrassments under which he acted.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

If a man of science were told that the results of his experiments, and the conclusions that he arrived at, should be of such a character that they would not upset the received popular notions on the subject, or disturb popular prejudice, or hurt the sensibilities of people who knew nothing about science; if a philosopher were told that he had a perfect right to speculate in the highest spheres of thought, provided that he arrived at the same conclusions as were held by those who had never thought in any sphere at all—well, nowadays the man of science and the philosopher would be considerably amused.
— from The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde

Like a stream welling from Mount Hermon and winding its way to the sea, so flowed the melodious current of her message, now meandering among the unopened flowers of rhymeless poetry, now through green pastures of salvation, where the Good Shepherd was bearing in his bosom the tender lambs of his flock; next it took the force of lofty diction, and fell, as it were, in cascades of silvery eloquence, but solemn, slow, and searching, adown the rocks and ravines of Sinai; then out like a sweet-rolling river of music into the wilderness, where the Prodigal Son, with the husks of his poverty clutched in his lean hands, sat in tearful meditation upon his father's home and his father's love.
— from Eli and Sibyl Jones, Their Life and Work by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones