As to deciding what provokes pain and pleasure, that is a question which depends upon the degree of power: the same thing, when confronted with a small quantity of power, may seem a danger and may suggest the need of speedy defence, and when confronted with the consciousness of greater power, may be a voluptuous stimulus and may be followed by a feeling of pleasure.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All this will be more clearly seen after we have set forth what seems a definite and most striking parallel to New Grange, both as a monument erected by man and, as we maintain, as a place for religious mysteries—the greatest structure ever raised by human effort, the Great Pyramid.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

When the inspiratory thorax gains space from the abdomen, or when space is demanded for the increasing bulk of the alimentary canal, or for the enlarging pregnant uterus; or when, in consequence of disease, such as dropsical accumulation, more room is wanted, then the abdominal chamber supplies the demand by the anterior bulge or swell of its expansile muscular parietes.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

We dressed our wounds with great care, and patiently awaited their cure; four of our men, however, soon after died, and many others suffered for a length of time before they were completely restored.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Upon the other shore a dark and mysterious range of hills was curved against the sky.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

So away, and took up my wife, and setting Jackson down at Fetter Lane end, I to the old Exchange to look Mr. Houblon, but, not finding him, did go home, and there late writing a letter to my Lord Sandwich, and to give passage to a letter of great moment from Mr. Godolphin to him, which I did get speedy passage for by the help of Mr. Houblon, who come late to me, and there directed the letter to Lisbon under cover of his, and here we talked of the times, which look very sad and distracted, and made good mirth at this day’s passage in the House, and so parted; and going to the gate with him, I found his lady and another fine lady sitting an hour together, late at night, in their coach, while he was with me, which is so like my wife, that I was mighty taken with it, though troubled for it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We staid a day at Manheim, and, on the fifth from our departure from Strasburgh, arrived at Mayence.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"But what is this?" cried Peter Hovenden abruptly, taking up a dusty bell glass, beneath which appeared a mechanical something, as delicate and minute as the system of a butterfly's anatomy.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Such Stuff as Dreams are Made of." I. The Death-Pledge.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Lord Palmerston was sharp and domineering, and Mr. Stevenson, our minister, was by no means mild or conciliatory.
— from Daniel Webster by Henry Cabot Lodge

I. [19] Squier and Davis: Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, p. 283.
— from Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306 by William Henry Holmes

“I don’t like companies—too much shenanigan about stock and directors and meetings.
— from The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm

Supposing we so suppressed and distorted and misused the other two primitive instincts, to obtain food and to kill one's enemy, the world would have ended long ago.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

Had Genevieve been older and with a little more understanding, she would have comprehended the desperate plight that had befallen her sister and Doris and Miss Camilla.
— from The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman

I think that you slept and dreamed a moment, that is all.”
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Those kept at the low temperature cure more slowly and develop a milder flavor, those at the higher temperature cure faster and develop undesirable flavors.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom

302 Of the writers whom he condescends to quote, the only two who expressly identify Osiris with the sun are Diodorus and Macrobius.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 06 of 12) by James George Frazer