For as deeds of violence arise, if that emotion of the soul be corrupted, whence vehement action springs, stirring itself insolently and unrulily; and lusts, when that affection of the soul is ungoverned, whereby carnal pleasures are drunk in, so do errors and false opinions defile the conversation, if the reasonable soul itself be corrupted; as it was then in me, who knew not that it must be enlightened by another light, that it may be partaker of truth, seeing itself is not that nature of truth.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In order that his blood may not be on your head, you should say: “ It is not I who am burying him, It is Gabriel who is burying him. ”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Ay, sir, says I, I believe so too.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"I will have you peeled and pickled, my lady," said she, "if I ever hear you mention that subject again.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

A 'stream' of thought, for aught that we see to be contained in its essence, may come to a full stop at any moment; but a simple substance is incorruptible, and will, by its own inertia, persist in Being so long as the Creator does not by a direct miracle snuff it out.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“That society, still in its infancy, is beginning to feel its way.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He first endeavoured to get into the play-house, believing himself qualify'd for an actor; but Wilkes, [38] to whom he apply'd, advis'd him candidly not to think of that employment, as it was impossible he should succeed in it.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

It makes my blood boil, and so, since it is rampant here, and everybody has been unjust to me, I have made up my mind to pay them back in their own coin.
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

You say she is in?"
— from The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum

But, with all this, a thoughtful spirit soon showed itself in him, even in religious matters.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

She sank into it with the abandonment of a woman at the end of her strength, and sat passive with closed eyes.
— from The Swindler and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

The hatred of an order has something superb in it,—it hates so relentlessly, so constantly, so transcendently; its personnel changes, its hate never alters; it wears one priest's face or another's; itself is identical, inexorable; it pursues to the end.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

As Surrey saw it in her hand, he grew hot, then cold, then fiery hot again.
— from What Answer? by Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) Dickinson