But history is related to poetry as portrait-painting is related to historical painting; the one gives us the true in the individual, the other the true in the universal; the one has the [pg 316] truth of the phenomenon, and can therefore verify it from the phenomenal, the other has the truth of the Idea, which can be found in no particular phenomenon, but yet speaks to us from them all.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

A purchaser has turned up for the copse: he'll give eight thousand for the timber.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But we must trample under foot this foolish vanity, and briskly and boldly shake the ridiculous foundation upon which these false opinions are founded.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

She attended to the tickets too soon , took them too hastily , so that she had to pay more than usual for them; her sister-in-law likewise hastened to carry her money to the jeweler's to buy a piece of jewelry, just as if she might miss it.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Now the greatest effort of the Imagination in the presentation of the unit for the estimation of magnitude indicates a reference to something absolutely great ; and consequently a reference to the law of Reason, which bids us take this alone as the supreme measure of magnitude.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

At the sandhillocks we were met by the under-groom, running to us from the house.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“What are you doing?” “Let go of it!” said Parfen, seizing from the prince’s hand a knife which the latter had at that moment taken up from the table, where it lay beside the history.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They come to us from the far-off—from all eras, and all lands—from Egypt, and India, and Greece, and Rome—and along through the middle and later ages, in the grand monarchies of Europe—born under far different institutes and conditions from ours—but out of the insight and inspiration of the same old humanity—the same old heart and brain—the same old countenance yearningly, pensively, looking forth.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I answered “that our horses were trained up, from three or four years old, to the several uses we intended them for; that if any of them proved intolerably vicious, they were employed for carriages; that they were severely beaten, while they were young, for any mischievous tricks; that the males, designed for the common use of riding or draught, were generally castrated about two years after their birth, to take down their spirits, and make them more tame and gentle; that they were indeed sensible of rewards and punishments; but his honour would please to consider, that they had not the least tincture of reason, any more than the Yahoos in this country.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

They are awake to the unquestionable fact that, if Scripture has been discovered "not to be worthy of unquestioning belief," faith "in the supernatural itself" is, so far, undermined.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

I was preparing to leave the cottage when he rushed in front of me, and for a moment I saw that he was ready to use force to detain me.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

And for minor matters, little things of different customs only, that nevertheless, occasionally, in the strain of this war, ruffle even friends, I would say something like this, which is in the hearts of us all.... France—dear lovely France, to so many of us adored for many years, who has stood to us for the romance of the world, we know that in many things our ways are not your ways and never will be, nor would we wish it otherwise.
— from The Sword of Deborah: First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

S-a-a-y, Clay, suppose he was sent to us for that very purpose?”
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon

The kind of timber used for ties and in the bridges and in its preparation, shall be such as from time to time may be ordered or prescribed by the general agent, or the company, under the rules and regulations and standard as recommended by the secretary of the interior, of the date of February—, 1866.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

It was impossible to get the bearing of that utterance from that girl who, as Doña Rita herself had told me, was the most taciturn of human beings; and yet of all human beings the one nearest to herself.
— from The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes by Joseph Conrad

With his enormous hat still on his head, even further on than usual, for the questionable castor, pushed down, no doubt, by violence, if we may judge by a transverse gap, covered Pipelet's eyes, who was on his back on the floor, at the foot of his bed.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

The remainder of the pack, which is called the talon, are left on the table, and the top card of it is turned up for the trump.
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

This Part II. is, on the contrary, only intended to show that, besides the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, even our own heart and conscience may teach us, from the book of nature, and the light of nature, that we are bound to love God on account of his great love bestowed upon us, and manifested through the means of all his creatures.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt

"But if you grant to us females that in consequence of our affections, we are not courageous, you must likewise grant how much we are doomed to suffer from the dangers of those whom we esteem."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest