The sparrow, each grain of sand, fall not without My sight.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

I know not how it is, and by what spirit we are led, and what we who would be deemed spiritual are aiming at, that we give so great labour and so eager solicitude for transitory and worthless things, and scarcely ever gather our senses together to think at all of our inward condition.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Although no graduated links of structure, fitted for gliding through the air, now connect the Galeopithecus with the other Insectivora, yet there is no difficulty in supposing that such links formerly existed, and that each was developed in the same manner as with the less perfectly gliding squirrels; each grade of structure having been useful to its possessor.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

In other words, do the parts of our universe HANG together, instead of being like detached grains of sand? Even grains of sand hang together through the space in which they are embedded, and if you can in any way move through such space, you can pass continuously from number one of them to number two.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

His management of the chiaro oscuro, or light and shadow, especially gleams of sunshine, is altogether wonderful, both in the contrivance and execution; and he is so happy in his perspective, and marking his distances at sea, by a progressive series of ships, vessels, capes, and promontories, that I could not help thinking, I had a distant view of thirty leagues upon the back-ground of the picture.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And let what I have been saying be regarded as a kind of sacred legend or oracle, and let this be our proof that, in one point of view, there may be a difficulty for a city to have good laws, but that there is another point of view in which nothing can be easier or sooner effected, granting our supposition.
— from Laws by Plato

To see everything going on so smoothly and to think of the roughness of the suitors' lives and deaths; to see all that full dress and ceremony and to think of the waste, and want, and beggared misery it represented; to consider that while the sickness of hope deferred was raging in so many hearts this polite show went calmly on from day to day, and year to year, in such good order and composure; to behold the Lord Chancellor and the whole array of practitioners under him looking at one another and at the spectators as if nobody had ever heard that all over England the name in which they were assembled was a bitter jest, was held in universal horror, contempt, and indignation, was known for something so flagrant and bad that little short of a miracle could bring any good out of it to any one—this was so curious and self-contradictory to me, who had no experience of it, that it was at first incredible, and I could not comprehend it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The influence of mental superiority, either general or special, and of superior decision of character, will necessarily tell for much.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

[40] First, some effective groups of statuary must be selected, and carefully examined.
— from Home Arts for Old and Young by Caroline L. Smith

"You may have to carry me to my room on a shutter, for I actually am going to smoke!" Leslie Gage and Wat Snell exchanged glances of satisfaction.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

Within a week, or at the most ten days, I shall get an answer, and according to it I shall either go or stay,—in fact, I do not know myself yet what I shall do.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

But my sister Grace (who had just come in with her usual light step, to tempt me to have at least a glass of beer before despising everything), by some extraordinary gift of sight—though there never have been straighter eyes—Grace never saw that great stockbroker, who wanted her not to look at him.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The brother and sister exchanged glances of surprise; suspicion was aroused by my emotion.
— from The Monctons: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie

Do you recall whether you received any telephone calls from Jack Ruby’s sister, Eva Grant on Saturday, November the 23d, that is to say, the day after the President was shot?
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The resolution of the milky way into stars proved that we are situated in a stratum of such bodies much thicker in some directions than others: this led to the inference that some or all of the nebulæ with which the sky is crowded might be similar enormous groups of stars; and the resolution of some of the nebulæ into detached portions was a first step towards the demonstration of the conjecture.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

The universe—embracing all that is—all atoms, all stars, each grain of sand and all the constellations, each thought and dream of animal and man, all matter and all force, all doubt and all belief, all virtue and all crime, all joy and all pain, all growth and all decay—is all there is.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll