He is unsuitable now, just because he plans out everything very thoroughly and accurately as every German has to.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We understand neighborliness just as you do.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Our modern philosophy, therefore, leaves us no just nor satisfactory idea of solidity; nor consequently of matter.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

[5477] Una nox Jovis sceptro aequiparanda , such a night's lodging is worth Jupiter's sceptre.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space not seen by the glass of the astronomer.
— 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.

Nature understands no jesting; she is always 30 true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man.
— 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.

One of these machine-shops had been used by the rebels as an arsenal, and in it were stored piles of shot and shell, some of which proved to be loaded, and that night was made hideous by the bursting of shells, whose fragments came uncomfortably, near Judge Lyon's house, in which I was quartered.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

One ought even to ENCOURAGE them, as has been partially attempted in the following rhymes:— Hail, ye worthies, barrow-wheeling, "Longer—better," aye revealing, Stiffer aye in head and knee; Unenraptured, never jesting, Mediocre everlasting, SANS GENIE ET SANS ESPRIT! 229.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

So, seeing that miserable wreck of Christian constancy, and considering ourselves lest we also be tempted, let us not judge another, but look at home.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

Exports: at least $14.7 million commodities: wool, hides and skins, and meat partners: UK, Netherlands, Japan (1987 est.)
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Let us not judge severely.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

They took over the civil administration of the conquered territory and judiciously upheld native justice.
— from War in the Garden of Eden by Kermit Roosevelt

An engagement, even when everything belonging to it goes smoothly, and suitably, cannot fail to awaken interest in the heart of a woman; and, Dora's lover being uncoveted by any of us, no jealousy shows itself to mar the universal good feeling.
— from Phyllis by Duchess

We have eleven hundred now, Blue, yellow, black and white; And Betsy says: “Old man, I think “They are mixed up now just right.”
— from Pioneer Life in Illinois by F. M. Perryman

And what grounds have we for inferring that an event manifested to us as a phenomenon of the Body, which alone we touch, and hear, and see, has or has not reached into the Mind, which is for us Now just as it always was, a Thing utterly removed and exempt from the cognisance and apprehension of our bodily senses?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 by Various

Whereupon, after furtively scrutinising us from behind one pillar after another, he cautiously approached and with searching little blue eyes severely inquired if we really intended to stay for the service,—"all through the sermon, ye understand; not just for the music."
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates