“Disaster may come from a convulsion of nature or from the weather, from your own greed or from some man’s vanity; from fear or from uncontrolled hope.”— Edwin Lefèvre《Reminiscences of a Stock Operator》
“I know not, I know not where Danusia is but I challenged him, because, even if I were to lose my life, I prefer death to life without my love, without the one who is clearest to me in the whole world.”— Henryk Sienkiewicz《The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance》
“So prone is the mind of man to suspicion, so intimately are we convinced in our own hearts of the fallibility of human nature at every point, that accusation often repeated will ever leave a doubt in the most candid mind.”— George Payne Rainsford James《Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times》
“It was her first duty, the first duty of every man, woman and child in the nation to see that the fighting-men went off in good heart.”— Alfred Ollivant《One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex》
“This man had robbed him at once of the love of his people and of Valentina, and thereby had set in his heart the burning desire to outdo him and to prove wrong in their preference both his people and Valentina.”— Rafael Sabatini《Love-at-arms: being a narrative excerpted from the chronicles of Urbino, during the dominion of the high and mighty Messer Guidobaldo da Montefeltro》
“To her, my thoughts I daily dedicate; To her, my heart I nightly martyrise; To her, my love I lowly do prostrate; To her, my life I wholly sacrifice: My thought, my heart, my life, my love, is she! &c.”— Anna Brownell Jameson《The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2): or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.》
“Well, who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew?”— Mr. Wilson《The Stranger》
“I, unhappy that I am, these eight years have I loved thee more than my life, and thou, as I have felt, art all afire and all consumed with love of a strange woman, wicked and perverse man that thou art!”— Giovanni Boccaccio《The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio》
“The Soul is brought by the Truth to a knowledge of the Heavenly Life (Coelia), and is led, through repentance, to seek forgiveness and to desire a holier life.”— Edmund Spenser《Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I》
“The answer is, that we must do good to our seeming and real good friends, and evil to our seeming and real evil enemies--good to the good, evil to the evil.”— Plato《The Republic of Plato》
“The position, as it would appear to a plain person of ordinary common sense, is that a woman who is legally married to one man and is living as the wife of another, is a married woman who is living with a man who is not her husband.”— R. Austin Freeman《Helen Vardon's confession》
“There were plenty of real worries for those who wished to complain; and for those inclined to take the fervour and faith, the courage and self-denial of the time, there were plenty of occasions for happiness and hope.”— Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr《The Belle of Bowling Green》
“And mind governs reason, and reason obeys mind; and mind is irremovable by fortune, cannot be taken away by informers, cannot be destroyed by disease, cannot have inroads made into it by old age.”— Plutarch《Plutarch's Morals》
“No man was there more upright than he, nor a greater lover of justice, nor was any woman more regardful of the Deities than she.”— Ovid《The metamorphoses of Ovid》
“So that when you are in harmony with nature in this respect, you will be elated with some reason; for you will be elated at some good of your own.”— Epictetus《The Enchiridion》
“If one should dream that such a world began In some slow devil's heart, that hated man, Who should deny him?--God, as thou art clean, Suffer not this, oh, suffer not this sin To be, that e'er I look on such a day!”— Sophocles《Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes》
“I have thought since of the wonderful goodness of God to me in preserving me in the use of my reason and senses in that distressed time, that I did not use wicked and violent means to end my own miserable life.”— Mary Rowlandson《Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson》
“She is a good and pure woman, and I love her as a man might love an angel.”— Arnold Bennett《The Grand Babylon Hotel》
“Sometimes love, for a woman, means only shelter; often, for a man, love means the blending of all knowledge, of all beauty, all ambition, of all that he has learned from books and from life.”— E. Phillips Oppenheim《The Zeppelin's Passenger》
“He was far too clear-headed to blink at the essential fact that at heart we were spies on a foreign power in time of peace, or to salve his conscience by specious distinctions as to our mode of operation.”— Erskine Childers《The Riddle of the Sands》
