He did not lay claim to the merit of having discovered the philosopher’s stone; but devoted so much of his time to the operations of alchymy, that it was very generally believed, that if such a thing as the philosopher’s stone had ever existed, or could be called into existence, he was the man to succeed in finding it.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

—No se hacen esas especulaciones en la Argentina y le diré por qué:
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He that fully grasps the Divine Body of Sakyamuni, holds ever, even without the written Sutra, the inner Saddharma Pundarika in his hand.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

When the sun had entirely emerged from the fog, and fields and mist were aglow with dazzling light—as if he had only awaited this to begin the action—he drew the glove from his shapely white hand, made a sign with it to the marshals, and ordered the action to begin.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Daemones custodes sunt hominum et eorum domini, ut nos animalium; nec hominibus, sed et regionibus imperant, vaticiniis, auguriis, nos regunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The servant having examined everything as best he might, reported to Pericone that which was on board; whereupon the latter promptly caused to bring the ladies ashore, together with the most precious things that were in the ship and might be gotten, and carried them off to a castle of his, where, the women being refreshed with food and rest, he perceived, from the richness of her apparel, that the lady whom he had found must needs be some great gentlewoman, and of this he was speedily certified by the honour that he saw the others do her and her alone; and although she was pale and sore disordered of her person, for the fatigues of the voyage, her features seemed to him exceeding fair; wherefore he forthright took counsel with himself, an she had no husband, to seek to have her to wife, and if he might not have her in marriage, to make shift to have her favours.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But as I fail to discover, after investigation, that you are endeavouring to do us a mischief—and I am quite sure that nothing of the sort has ever entered our heads with regard to you—the best plan seemed to me to come and talk the matter over with you, so that, if possible, we might dispel the mutual distrust on either side.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Emile, impetuous, eager, excited, almost beside himself, cries aloud and sheds torrents of tears upon the hands of father, mother, and daughter; with sobs he embraces every one in the house and repeats the same thing over and over again in a way that would be ludicrous at any other time.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She did not stop until she had explained everything.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

Wherein hast thou been wronged?" For weeks the elaboration of this sketch had employed every moment which was not demanded for the execution of her allotted daily task in the convict workroom; and knowing that on Monday she would be bereft of her pretty model, she had redoubled her exertions to complete it.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

These various Acts of Parliament prove how very prominent the evil of receiving stolen goods has been in the view of the Legislature.—It is to be lamented however, that a more general and comprehensive view has not been taken of the subject, by substituting, instead of the piece-meal System which has been from time to time adopted, on suggestions applicable only to particular cases, one general law that should have embraced every object , and remedied every defect in the existing Statutes, on this important subject of criminal jurisprudence.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

Under the name of Fígaro [30] and of Juan Pérez de Munguia he won for himself such prominence in journalism as no Spaniard has ever equalled.
— from A History of Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Had he seen his enemy even in the dim twilight?
— from Days in the Open by Lathan A. (Lathan Augustus) Crandall

But secretly, she had enjoyed every minute of it.
— from World Beyond Pluto by Stephen Marlowe

The reason for this was, that when [37] questioned during the court-martial that had been held at the academy, the grand commander, forgetting all the solemn promises he had made not to reveal any of the society's secrets, had exposed every thing, and thus broken up the organization of Night-hawks.
— from Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto by Harry Castlemon

“Meanwhile no word of her, only of her villainous father and brother; no token that she had escaped evil or was removed from want.
— from A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green