But he felt the need of some basis for them, and accordingly went so far as to require that the conception of duty itself should be also the ground of its fulfilment ; in other words, that it should itself be its own enforcement.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Explanation.—I say indefinite, because it cannot be determined through the existence itself of the existing thing, or by its efficient cause, which necessarily gives the existence of the thing, but does not take it away.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

My sister!’ ‘Lord, Nicholas!’ returned Mrs. Nickleby, ‘whose Kate should it be, if not ours; or what should I care about it, or take any interest in it for, if it was anybody but your sister?’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Pao-yü exclaimed with a grin, after lending an ear to what he had to say; "and she is bound, I think, by and by to have a good deal of good fortune!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“You see, you see, you KNOW that you do and that you already quite suspect I believe it; therefore, why not frankly confess it to me, so that we may at least live with it together and learn perhaps, in the strangeness of our fate, where we are and what it means?” This solicitation dropped, alas, as it came: if I could immediately have succumbed to it I might have spared myself—well, you’ll see what.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Thou knowest, my friend, what my mother used to say, that one must live long to see much; I say it because I expect to see more if I live longer; for I don't expect to stop until I see thee a farmer of taxes or a collector of revenue, which are offices where, though the devil carries off those who make a bad use of them, still they make and handle money.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Alæsa, t. of Sicily ( I Bagni ), i. 401 , 411 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

“Well,” he said, “I bear it because I must; but it is shortening my life, and it will shorten yours too if you have to stick to it.”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Once more you have heard something incomplete; but is there not hope in the thought that this science has a continuation which will be brought to light either by ourselves or by those to follow?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Of all mental notions, that of conjunction is the only one which cannot be given through objects, but can be originated only by the subject itself, because it is an act of its purely spontaneous activity.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Perhaps it did not have any bottom—perhaps he would keep on sinking inch by inch until his head went under!
— from Chums in Dixie; or, The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by St. George Rathborne

I recognized that I was on the highroad to surpass it, both in effrontery of conception and perfection of technique.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

These hoods may be easily made from part of a large can or of a piece of tin or sheet iron bent into shape.
— from Making Tin Can Toys by Edward Thatcher

The source of solar energy is not to be found in the sun itself, but in his environment; and he himself, in all his glory, is but the king, crowned with gold, blazing with rich apparel, and scattering benefits among his satellites, not from his own private treasury, but who himself is enriched by the mighty tribute with which his willing subjects continually endow him, and to whom alone he owes all his pride and power and wealth and magnificence, and which he, in turn, so freely expends, transmuted in form alone, in the perpetual improvement and welfare of his domain.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

Antaeus was with us for several weeks and during his stay I became, in a measure, “chummy” with the Driver, from whom I learned various interesting facts about my muscular friend.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King

You see, he has money, so why should it be idle?
— from A Russian Proprietor, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To be sure not all the dogmas of the Catholic Church are declared in the twelve articles of the Creed, but any dogmas not expressly mentioned are included in the ninth article, which says: "I believe in the Holy Catholic Church."
— from The Excellence of the Rosary Conferences for Devotions in Honor of the Blessed Virgin by Math Josef Frings

I presume it is Shakespeare’s invention, but I call attention to it on the bare chance that it may be found elsewhere than in Plutarch, when it would point to Shakespeare’s use of a second authority.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The Colonel was away, but the main body of his boots stood in battalions in his room.
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville