Associationists in England and France, Herbartians in Germany, all describe the Self as an aggregate of which each part, as to its being , is a separate fact.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I may say, too, that I believe I am the only person in the village, excepting Gabriel Oak, who does know it.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

("This is beautiful," is an affirmation).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This was said not only for that same time, but also to set thereupon the ground of my faith when He saith anon following: But take it, believe it, and keep thee therein and comfort thee therewith and trust thou thereto; and thou shalt not be overcome .
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

,” said the child, “while you were talking with that lady in the bole, a big dog took a bite of my cake, and then I bit it also.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

There is more constancy in suffering the chain we are tied to than in breaking it, and more pregnant evidence of fortitude in Regulus than in Cato; ‘tis indiscretion and impatience that push us on to these precipices: no accidents can make true virtue turn her back; she seeks and requires evils, pains, and grief, as the things by which she is nourished and supported; the menaces of tyrants, racks, and tortures serve only to animate and rouse her: “Duris ut ilex tonsa bipennibus Nigrae feraci frondis in Algido, Per damma, percmdes, ab ipso Ducit opes, animumque ferro.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The Italian version of the tragedy, Gli Spettri , has ever since 1892 taken a prominent place in the repertory of the great actors Zaccone and Novelli, who have acted it, not only throughout Italy, but in Austria, Germany, Russia, Spain, and South America.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

If you try to please him, though it be in a way which is not accordant with right, he may be pleased.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

He comes to a gateway in the brick wall, looks in, and sees a great perplexity of iron lying about in every stage and in a vast variety of shapes—in bars, in wedges, in sheets; in tanks, in boilers, in axles, in wheels, in cogs, in cranks, in rails; twisted and wrenched into eccentric and perverse forms as separate parts of machinery; mountains of it broken up, and rusty in its age; distant furnaces of it glowing and bubbling in its youth; bright fireworks of it showering about under the blows of the steam-hammer; red-hot iron, white-hot iron, cold-black iron; an iron taste, an iron smell, and a Babel of iron sounds.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

On all the other sides it has been fortified either with lofty walls or steep and precipitous hills 1393 , but so it is, that its buildings, increasing and extending beyond all bounds, have now united many other cities to it 1394 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He was both younger and older than I by insomuch as he was a poet through and through, and had been out of college before I was born.
— from Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship by William Dean Howells

Granice, at the idea, broke into an audible laugh—a queer stage-laugh, like the cackle of a baffled villain in a melodrama.
— from The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 by Edith Wharton

The "Apis Ligustica," the Italian bee, is another variety of the "Mellifica.
— from The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck

This is blasphemy indeed at the present time.
— from Mountain Meditations, and some subjects of the day and the war by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby

How long, O mendacious Greece, wilt thou tell us of Doriscus, [96] the Thracian town, and of the army counted there in battalions in a fenced space, when we careful, or to speak more truly, cautious historians, exaggerate nothing, and merely record what is established by evidence neither doubtful nor uncertain!
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

Hence this species of philosophy appears probable, and almost certain to those who are daily practiced in such experiments, and have thus corrupted their imagination, but incredible and futile to others.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

2 The stillness is so intense in the grove where we are sitting side by side, I am so anxious for her to feel it, that I become impatient and irritable.
— from The Choice of Life by Georgette Leblanc

A little of the cargo was taken out of the 'Isabella', but in a few days she went to pieces.
— from The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale

Sir, I stand among those who are the most ready to acknowledge that the inhabitants of New England are conspicuous for their industry; but I am likewise of opinion, that they are not less noted for their sagacity, in their attendance to their interest; and in the art of making good bargains, I view them as being fully competent to cope in dealings with the inhabitants of the Southern States.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

But no sooner had he struck the first blow with his axe than it broke into a thousand pieces against the tree.
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang