{pg 60} Der Geist, der stets verneint —The spirit that constantly denies, that says everlastingly "No." Goethe's "Mephistopheles."
— 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.

x. 46, according to the 'subtilior explicatio' now generally adopted.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Without original talent, she exercised, nevertheless, great influence by her beauty, her social skill, and her ability in presenting the intellectual treasures of others.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

It has been truly said, “Every nation gets the Jew it deserves,” and it may well be that the superstitions and cruelties of the Eastern Jews have been generated in them by long centuries of oppression and wrong.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

“There, sir!” exclaimed Needham, giving a hearty blow with his hammer, and relieving his pent-up feelings by a loud outletting of his breath between a groan and a sigh; “I hope that will do.”
— from The Three Midshipmen by William Henry Giles Kingston

And as in the individual, so in the species: every new generation exceeds in a certain measure the activity of the last.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

Perhaps Vick had written that she had eloped—she had read that sometimes even nice girls did that, girls oppressed by things like the League.
— from Laughing Last by Jane Abbott