Explanation—I say absolutely infinite, not infinite after its kind: for, of a thing infinite only after its kind, infinite attributes may be denied; but that which is absolutely infinite, contains in its essence whatever expresses reality, and involves no negation.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

I have neither State nor national society behind me, but am attempting to carry on a convention with this single aim—to awaken Congress and, through it, the country, to the fact that a Sixteenth Amendment is needed, in order to carry out the principles of the Declaration of Independence; and that we women are tired of petitioning, and would fain begin to vote without delay.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

How far his conscience had been sinned against, I never inquired.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Reason will have it so; for by their labour am I entertained, and with their sweat am I nourished, I, my children and my family.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Every man who pursues an art may be presumed to have some sensibility; the question is whether he has breeding, too, and whether what he stops at is not, in the end, vulgar and offensive.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But, in truth, the universal whole always was such as it now is, and always will be such.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"Curious anomaly, fantastic element!" said an ingenious naturalist, "in which the animal kingdom blossoms, and the vegetable does not!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Patsy says he knew the man, who if still alive is now in America, where he went several years ago.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

"The boy was coupling the cars, and forgot till too late they had Miller platforms that come together," says the captain, mentioning a kind of accident very common on the first introduction of this life-saving invention, which until railroad men got accustomed to it, was a source of danger instead of safety, as it now is.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

Iraq NA; service available in northern Iraq (2001)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He breeds here, and is not esteemed a snowbird at all, as he disappears at the near approach of winter, and returns again in spring, like the Song-Sparrow, and is not in any way associated with the cold and the snow.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

[DC] "From the observations of Lockhart Clark, Arndt, Cleland and Meynert, there can be no doubt that the pyramidal nerve cells vary in relative size and in numbers in the different layers of the gray cortex, and that the largest sized pyramidal cells lie in the third and fourth layers."
— from The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Henry Calderwood

“Remember, I am suspected, and I now intend to clear myself.”
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

Still as I narrated, instead of checking, he incited me to proceed he spurred me by the gesture, the smile, the half-word.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Iowa is known as the "Hawkeye State," and its name is of Dakotan Indian derivation, meaning "drowsy," which, however, is hardly the proper basis for naming such a wide-awake Commonwealth.
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook