Reflection upon Death is not a gloomy and sad Thought of Resigning every Thing that he Delights in, but it is a short Night followed by an endless Day.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Et la piraterie resterait un délit: il ne serait pas permis à un éditeur d'éditer à son profit un texte qu'il
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

A spirit of criticism for the sake of distinguishing only, or, far worse, for the sake of having one’s opinion ready upon demand, is not merely repulsive to all true thinkers, but is, in itself, destructive of all thinking.
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

These two universities, Bologna and Paris, were, in every sense of the word, early in the century, real universities, differing in no essential from our modern institutions that bear the same name.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

“This, you know,” resumed Uncle David, “is not debt: it is ruin.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Growing reckless under disappointment I now dashed away in pursuit of animals that had been scattered by the fusillade, and fired right and left at all ranges between two and ten hundred yards, but without any other effect than that of driving up the dust under two or three of them, and causing many of their astounding leaps.
— from Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne