In her portrait, engraved by Faber, after Kneller, she is represented in mourning, and in a devout posture before a crucifix.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Shall I relight it, Monsieur Conrad?” “No, come on out of it.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

As a psychologist he is a genius of slander; inexhaustively rich in means to this end; no one understands better than he how to introduce a little poison into praise.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The jury is pre-eminently a political institution; it must be regarded as one form of the sovereignty of the people; when that sovereignty is repudiated, it must be rejected, or it must be adapted to the laws by which that sovereignty is established.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

After dinner to church by coach, and there my Lady, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Lemon, and I only, we, in spite to one another, kept one another awake; and sometimes I read in my book of Latin plays, which I took in my pocket, thinking to have walked it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For the same Reason Idiots are still in Request in most of the Courts of Germany , where there is not a Prince of any great Magnificence, who has not two or three dressed, distinguished, undisputed Fools in his Retinue, whom the rest of the Courtiers are always breaking their Jests upon.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But it is impossible to express the satisfaction I received in my own mind, after such a manner as to make it a suitable entertainment to the reader.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

It is sentimental, its ritual is meagre and unctuous, it expects no miracles, it thinks optimism akin to piety, and regards profitable enterprise and practical ambition as a sort of moral vocation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Still, in Russia, it must be admitted, that the respect for religion—contrary to its form of manifestation in France—diminishes in proportion as the social rank rises.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

The present state of science is reviewed in my articles in the Ergebnisse der Anatomie und Entwickelungsgeschichte , vols.
— from The Science and Philosophy of the Organism by Hans Driesch

Oh, Barto, Barto, she is rarest in Milan!
— from Vittoria — Complete by George Meredith

"What do you mean by this pretence?" Her only answer was to stare with the same stony intensity right into my eyes.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont