From these considerations then it is plain that people are not warranted in saying that Pleasure is a Movement or a Generation: because these terms are not applicable to all things, only to such as are divisible and not “wholes:” I mean that of an act of Sight there is no Generation, nor is there of a point, nor of a monad, nor is any one of these a Movement or a Generation: neither then of Pleasure is there Movement or Generation, because it is, as one may say, “a whole.”
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

"No fears, no grace," said James, "Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God."
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

The suffering man ought really "to consume his own smoke;" there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Break not faith with me, (Or) you shall be killed by the Impact of the Sanctity of the Four Corners of the World, Killed by the Impact of the Forty-four Angels, Killed by the Impact of the Pillar of the Kaʿbah, Killed by the Thrust of the sacred Lump of Iron, Killed by the Shaft of the Thunderbolt, Killed by the Pounce of Twilight Lightning, Killed by the Impact of the Thirty Sections of the Korān, Killed by the Impact of the Saying, “There is no god but God,” etc.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

If A and B are otherwise identical, save that B is a little bigger, so that they appear similar, there is no great mistake if I hold them to be equivalent and substitute B for A.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

On the other side, there is no great Common-wealth, the Soveraignty whereof is in a great Assembly, which is not, as to consultations of Peace, and Warre, and making of Lawes, in the same condition, as if the Government were in a Child.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

2 Many have so gone forth and so returned; some to [ 329 ] say, ‘There is no God;’ a few to say (as is reported of a living poet), ‘I believe in God, but am against him;’ but some also to discern in the viper’s head Nature’s ironclad, armed with her best science to defend the advance of form to humanity along narrow passes.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

And to this I say, that the various and contrary choices that men make in the world do not argue that they do not all pursue good; but that the same thing is not good to every man alike.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

And yet I suppose there is no great tenor who has not at some time in his life longed to take the part of Siegfried, 'The curse can touch him not for he is pure, Love shineth on him and he knows not fear.'"
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

Call the man’s attention to the fact that it is “in his heart” that the fool says “there is no God.”
— from How to bring men to Christ by R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey

The logicians profess to show the way, but the geometers alone ever reach it, and aside from their science there is no genuine demonstration.—
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

Living in rooms was the nearest approach I had made in all my life to housekeeping, I was still in a state of wonderment at everything in Rome, from Romulus and Remus on the morning pat of butter to the November roses in full bloom on the Pincian, I [Pg 34] was quite content to let practical affairs and domestic details look out for themselves—or, perhaps it would be more true to say that I never gave them a thought.
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

surely this is not going to be another blank?"
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

"The whole business was a squalid sort of thing banked by mountains so grand in their rugged strength that I never got used to the dirty, dusty little half-civilized town there on the plateau.
— from Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, by a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades

Suppose that that zone actually does set up a barrier in the ether, so that it nullifies gravitation, magnetism, and all allied phenomena; so that the power-bars, the attractors and repellers, cannot work through it?
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

On the appearance of Palamedes to answer the charge, Ulysses appeared seemingly as his friend, and suggested, that if no gold should be found in his possession, he must be innocent.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV by Ovid

Mr Bradlaugh in his reply said:— "I am an Atheist, but I do not say there is no God; and until you tell me what you mean by God I am not mad enough to say anything of the kind.
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

This was followed by a story of a man who apologized to the trees in St. James's Park, and explained to them that he had come from a little bachelor's party, until he at last sat down saying, 'This is no good; I mus-mush wait till the bloody pro-prochession has passed.'
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore