“My question is, ‘Shall I succeed in my present enterprise?’” “What an ugly question!” exclaimed Sinang.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

And by far the largest part of the new matter introduced has been written either (1) to remove obscurities, ambiguities, and minor inconsistencies in the exposition of my views which the criticisms [5] of others or my [xii] own reflection have enabled me to discover; or (2) to treat as fully as seemed desirable certain parts or aspects of the subject which I had either passed over altogether or discussed too slightly in my previous editions, and on which it now appears to me important to explain my opinions, either for the greater completeness of my treatise,—according to my own view of the subject,—or for its better adaptation to the present state of ethical thought in England.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Had I been born a great person, I should have been ambitious to have made myself beloved, not to make myself feared or admired: shall I more plainly express it?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Yet even so, by the important assistance of the system of figures which enables us to represent all larger numbers by the same small ones, intuitive or perceptive evidence of every sum is made possible, even where we make such use of abstraction that not only the numbers, but indefinite quantities and whole operations are thought only in the abstract and indicated as so thought, as [sqrt](r^b) so that we do not perform them, but merely symbolise them.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I have so much faith in my old friend's theory, that when I feel that idle vein returning upon me, I presently subside into my proper element of prose, remembering those eluding nereids, and that inauspicious inland landing.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Divine Scripture in many places explodes this idea.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Nor indeed is Judea destitute of such delights as come from the sea, since its maritime places extend as far as Ptolemais: it was parted into eleven portions, of which the royal city Jerusalem was the supreme, and presided over all the neighboring country, as the head does over the body.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But thou, Sir Lancelot, sitting in my place Enchaired tomorrow, arbitrate the field; For wherefore shouldst thou care to mingle with it, Only to yield my Queen her own again?
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Her works have been seen in many public exhibitions.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

Thus began the connection between the Searchlight and Bart Harrington, subsequently its most popular employe.
— from Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Santo il mio padre, e dolce il mio Signore, Ora ajutami in ogni mio mestiere, Christo amore, Christo amore."
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

“In the overwhelming majority of cases I am in entire sympathy with the movement to abolish the routine use of alcoholics from medicine, and I rarely advise such in my practice.”— Edward R. Baldwin , M. D., Saranac Lake Sanitarium, New York.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

Although the snow never lies very deep on the ground, and is apt to pile up in hard drifts, it is sufficiently deep and soft in many places, especially on the grassy parts of the tundra, to make walking without snowshoes very inconvenient and fatiguing.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch