If you believe in a society of laws, a land where our rulers have to tell us the rules, and have to follow them too, then you're part of the same struggle that kids fight when they argue for the right to live under the same Bill of Rights that adults have.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Our host looked at the three of us in some perplexity; but as a man who knew something of life, and looked at it from a serious point of view, he at once availed himself of the chance of catching his visitor by himself.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My view: all the forces and instincts which are the source of life are lying beneath the ban of morality : morality is the life-denying instinct.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Flush’d with power And pride of freshly-form’d resolve, I read Helvetius half-an-hour; But, halting in attempts to solve Why, more than all things else that be, A lady’s grace hath force to move That sensitive appetency Of intellectual good, call’d love, Took Blackstone down, only to draw My swift-deriving thoughts ere long To love, which is the source of law, And, like a king, can do no wrong; Then open’d Hyde, where loyal hearts, With faith unpropp’d by precedent, Began to play rebellious parts.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Suffering is made contagious by pity; under certain circumstances it may lead to a total sacrifice of life and living energy—a loss out of all proportion to the magnitude of the cause (—the case of the death of the Nazarene).
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Boss , an employer or superintendent of labourers, a leader.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Many will be reminded of good and evil when they look upon these structures; for thus these same values stand over the stream of life, and life flows on beneath them and leaves them standing.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The majesty of the mother and have proved Ingrate to parents are to be adjudged Unfit to give unto the shores of light A living progeny.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

But his long spell of leisure and liberty was drawing to its end.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Or, Sports on Land and Lake .
— from The Young Train Master by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I was watching the woman that bore me Stretched in the brindled darkness Of the sick-room, rigid with will To die: and the quick leaf tore me Back to this rainy swill Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me.
— from Amores: Poems by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I probed the sore as thy disciple should: "How, beast," said I, "this stolid carelessness Sufficeth thee, when Rome is on her march To stamp out like a little spark thy town, Thy tribe, thy crazy tale and thee at once?"
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

JACK LORIMER’S CHAMPIONS; or, Sports on Land and Lake.
— from The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol by Gerald Breckenridge

A sense of loneliness and languor came over her.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

He applied his foot to one of them, and it was not until he had used force, which in any other case he would have dispensed with, that the negro awoke from his state of lethargy and looked vacantly about him.
— from The Pirate by Frederick Marryat

If it were not her fate to know the very ultimate sweetness of love, at least she might have known its consolation.
— from Mrs. Darrell by Foxcroft Davis

I cannot explain how it happened, but in a very short time the story had gone the round of the clubs and drawing-rooms, and I found myself launched as a lion of the largest size—if it is strictly correct to speak of launching a lion.
— from The Black Poodle, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

In the beginning of Time, after the Elohim [the “ Sons of Light and Life, ” or the Builders] had shaped out of the eternal Essence the Heavens and the Earth, they formed the worlds six by six.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky