And yet, this want may be supplied us; We call the Supernatural to guide us; We pine and thirst for Revelation, Which nowhere worthier is, more nobly sent, Than here, in our New Testament.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

She said Yes, with a movement of the head, in order not to thwart her father and mother.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Wherefore, to the end that by His grace we may be preserved safe and sound in this present adversity and in this so joyous company, let us, magnifying His name, in which we have begun our diversion, and holding Him in reverence, commend ourselves to Him in our necessities, well assured of being heard."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He who is of no use to himself is of no use to 15 any one.
— 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.

At Boston they have changed parts, and government plays the hypocrite, in order not to shock society.
— from On Love by Stendhal

“I laugh, because it reminds me of a sprained ankle which I once feigned to have in order not to dance.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Heartily wishing she had been frank at first, she resolved to have it out now, and accept nothing Mr. Fletcher offered her, not even silence.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

And at first the woman kept this secret, but afterwards she told her mother, whether in answer to her inquiry or not I cannot tell; and the mother told her husband Megacles.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

A poet, spokesman of his full soul at a given juncture, cannot consider eventualities or think of anything but the message he is sent to deliver, whether the world can then hear it or not.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

For its peace was the ether in which all desire is dissolved and becomes transparent and crystal; and their life was a limpid existence in unruffled peace; they walked on, in heavenly sympathy of fellowship, close together, hemmed in one narrow circle, a [ 201 ] circle of radiance which embraced them both.
— from Ecstasy, A Study of Happiness: A Novel by Louis Couperus

Such a reverse occurs in the life of almost every prominent politician, and, though harassing, is of no determining import.
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

"I shall tell you her name, whether you wish to hear it or not.
— from Professor Huskins by Lettie M. Cummings

The propensity with which Irishmen are credited of making ludicrous bulls is said to have its origin, not from any lack of intelligence, but rather in the fancy of that lively race, which often does not wait for expression until the ideas have taken proper verbal form.
— from The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

And besides this, the mutilation of the Hermae in one night, when all of them had their faces disfigured, disturbed many even of those who, as a rule, despised such things.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The advancement of the highest interests of national science and learning and the custody of objects of art and of the valuable results of scientific expeditions conducted by the United States have been committed to the Smithsonian Institution.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

This hat is of no use to me, and I will give it to you in exchange for the table-cloth."
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

“I will feel ever so much safer in a tree than hiding in or near the ground in a strange place.”
— from Whitefoot the Wood Mouse by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess