Whenever a new industrial establishment is founded, the Company should be informed, so that all those interested may obtain information from it.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

This, from some opium experiences of mine, I can believe; I have indeed seen the same thing asserted twice in modern books, and accompanied by a remark which I am convinced is true; viz., that the dread book of account which the Scriptures speak of is in fact the mind itself of each individual.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

In ae constellation shine; To adore thee is my duty, Goddess o' this soul o' mine!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

And therefore it seems impeccable logic to say that all that is most unlike the rooster is the most spiritual part of love.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

It was wrong; it was unfair and cruel; and, as he sat in the refectory, he suffered time after time in memory the same humiliation until he began to wonder whether it might not really be that there was something in his face which made him look like a schemer and he wished he had a little mirror to see.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

‘But old Arthur Gride and matrimony is a most anomalous conjunction of words; old Arthur Gride and dark eyes and eyelashes, and lips that to look at is to long to kiss, and clustering hair that he wants to play with, and waists that he wants to span, and little feet that don’t tread upon anything—old Arthur Gride and such things as these is more monstrous still; but old Arthur Gride marrying the daughter of a ruined “dashing man” in the Rules of the Bench, is the most monstrous and incredible of all.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Their breath makes the air heavy and relaxing, and the still more penetrating odor of the orange blossoms sweetens the atmosphere till it might almost be called the refinement of odor.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Nobody ever saw one animal, by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Editor's Note: It has been called to our attention that Project Gutenberg ebook #43 which is the same title as this, is much easier to read than file #42 which you have presently opened.]
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Yes," said the Abbe, "that is more serious than the question of money."
— from L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 3 by Ludovic Halévy

That self-introspection and analysis are helpful in developing and strengthening conscientiousness no one will deny, but the habitual disclosure of one’s thoughts and criticisms of self to another, though it may still afford support to some, has ceased to appear generally advisable.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

I taxed him at once with having written that letter to the ‘Times’ just before the war saying that all the Indian Mohammedans supported the action of the English Government, and he said he was sorry for it now, but the Mohammedans had [88] been deceived as to the true state of the case.
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

But the promiscuousness caused by poverty and indigence is such that at times it might have been difficult for a father and mother to prove a child their own.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

And to think that where there was no such thing as time I might easily imagine that my suffering was enduring for months before death finally released me!
— from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs

One quart of berries or any small fruit, two tablespoonfuls of flour, two tablespoonfuls of sugar; simmer together and turn into molds; cover with frosting as for cake, or with whipped eggs and sugar, browning lightly in the oven; serve with cream. TOAST PUDDING.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

Told James to show me the outer portal with the brass plate on it, and bring in the ‘welcome’ mat so that I wouldn’t stand there and think it meant me .
— from Ruth Fielding In the Saddle; Or, College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

If yonder ship drives on the sands—and she has but a poor chance of keeping off them, I fear—we cannot let her people perish without trying to save them; and though it may be a hard job to get alongside the wreck, yet some of the poor fellows may be drifted away from her on rafts or spars, and we may be able to pick them up.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston