She’s in love; egad, she’s like a love-sick cat, and so on....
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The attributes which we have indicated, suffice to explain all the differences of combined bodies; for we must inevitably leave something indestructible, lest everything should resolve itself into non-existence.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But, most of all, the present industrial constitution of society is, like every society which has ever existed, full of inequities.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

'Virtus autem, quae est per se ipsa laudabilis, et sine qua nihil laudari potest, tamen habet plures partes, quarum alia est alia ad laudationem aptior.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Son influence littéraire et sociale fut énorme (1694-1778).
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Either of which who serving, only serves— Proclaims himself disqualified to pour To that Good Genius—complex Poetry, Uniting each god-grace, including both: Which, operant for body as for soul, Masters alike the laughter and the tears, Supreme in lowliest earth, sublimest sky.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Isabel gave her one strange, inexplicable look ere she left the room, shutting the door this time without regard to noise and with something very like temper.
— from A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia E. Barr

Besides, it was delightful to get out of that awful fog; we could not have done anything to-day if we had stayed in London except sit in this little room with the gas lit.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

Take in the old times before the war, and if a trunk railroad got wrecked, y'understand, people stayed interested long enough so that even if the article about how the head of the guilty banking concern worked his way up didn't appear till three months afterward, it was still good, but you take it to-day, Mawruss, and the chances is that a dozen articles about how Leon Trotzky used to was a feller by the name Braustein which are now slated to be put into the May edition of the magazine is going to be killed along with Trotzky somewheres about the middle of next [Pg 190] month.
— from Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass

I know how to manage young gentlemen, you know how to cook for them, and what I says is, let each stick to his own business and then there won't be any trouble.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

"In daylight, however, I dare say it looks easier," said Balfour, carelessly.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn