I do not ascribe to the will that unintelligible necessity, which is supposed to lie in matter.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

So the unsubstantial Bohemian existence went on; and to Clarissa, for whom this Bohemia was an utterly new world, it seemed the only life worth living.
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Do you understand now why I said that I hoped you would come again and stay longer?
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Among other things I exhibited this powder, and I told him of its strange properties, how it stimulates those brain centres which control the emotion of fear, and how either madness or death is the fate of the unhappy native who is subjected to the ordeal by the priest of his tribe.
— from The Adventure of the Devil's Foot by Arthur Conan Doyle

Understand now why I scorned to work with such rotten tools.”
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I am the Duchess de Champdoce, and I will keep the name that has been intrusted to me pure and unsullied, nor will I stoop to treachery or deception.”
— from The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau

This object did not fall from heaven, but is a finite part of the infinite which actually has the contradictory quality of possessing in and with [Pg 390] its logical nature that universal nature which is superior to all logic.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

In the Law it stands written, "`By men of unknown tongues and by the lips of an unknown nation will I speak to this People, but even then they will not listen to Me', says the Lord." 014:022
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Corinthians by Richard Francis Weymouth