For this, indeed, is the cause why knowledge is free from falsehood, because of necessity each thing must correspond exactly with the knowledge which grasps its nature.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

They mutually contradict each other: they have their origin in different tables of values.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Morrel smiled with an expression very like a grimace, and then turned round to Monte Cristo, as if to ask him to extricate him from his embarrassment.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

For one of the merry cotillions before supper Prince Andrew was again her partner.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I think my circumstances all forbid that.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

When the message came to Thorer he made himself ready, and manned with his house-servants the same vessel he had sailed with on his cruise to Bjarmaland, and which he equipped at his own expense.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The most considerable of the islands is Cisthene, on which is a city of the same name.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Now that Mobile is shut out to the commerce of our enemy, it calls for no further effort on our part, unless the capture of the city can be followed by the occupation of the Alabama River and the railroad to Columbus, Georgia, when that place would be a magnificent auxiliary to my further progress into Georgia; but, until General Canby is much reinforced, and until he can more thoroughly subdue the scattered armies west of the Mississippi, I suppose that much cannot be attempted by him against the Alabama River and Columbus, Georgia.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I was afraid not of his six foot, not of getting a sound thrashing and being thrown out of the window; I should have had physical courage enough, I assure you; but I had not the moral courage.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

E’en the gods were to much curiosity given, For Hermes was only the Newsman of heaven.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

“That’s more than most can say,” remarked Mrs. Wardour, so nearly smacking her lips that an impartial umpire might have said that “it counted.”
— from Peter by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Idling away the sunny hours Nothing to do but rest all day Catholic Church at Atuona A native spearing fish from a rock A volunteer cocoanut grove, with trees of all ages Climbing for cocoanuts Splitting cocoanut husks in copra making process Cutting the meat from cocoanuts to make copra A Marquesan home on a paepae Isle of Barking Dogs The haka , the Marquesan national dance Hot Tears with Vai Etienne
— from White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

The metal can be procured by pulverizing carbonate of potassium and charcoal, and heating them in an iron retort.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

Is it wise of us to say to these fellow Christians of ours, adherents of the Catholic Faith as well as we, "Nay, but the nearer you draw to us the farther we mean to draw away from you; the more closely you approximate to Anglican religion, the more closely shall we, for the sake of differencing ourselves from you, approximate to Vatican religion?"
— from A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington

And here I am, sir, on Gibraltar Rock, preferring to take my chances of getting to France from here than with the fleet, which goes to the Leeward Islands.
— from The Rock of the Lion by Molly Elliot Seawell

Osmotic pressure tends, therefore, to force the movement of solvents through semi-permeable membranes from more dilute toward more concentrated solutions.
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

“It begins to occur to me,” Carhart went on, “that we are working under the nerviest president that ever—But perhaps he can’t help it.
— from The Road Builders by Samuel Merwin

It was he, indeed, who had persuaded Catriona to leave, or rather, not to return, to her cousin's, placing her instead with a family of Gregorys, decent people, quite at the Advocate's disposition, and in whom she might have the more confidence because they were of her own clan and family.
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Mustapha, in the meantime, collected the best of his fighting-men around him, and waited intently for his scouts to reach the strangers, who had halted upon an eminence and seemed to be hesitating whether to advance or to retire.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang