Since that melancholy event, it is his misfortune to be under the influence of a “carnal mind φρονημα σαρξ that is enmity against God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” Rom. viii.
— from Sermons by the late Rev. Richard de Courcy by Richard De Courcy

But the only object in eternity upon which such capability can be expended is God; and the carnal mind, saith the Scripture, is enmity against God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

And carnal men have carnal minds and carnal interests, which are both unreconcilable to the spiritual, holy mind and interest; for the "carnal mind is enmity against God, and is not subject to his law, nor can be," Rom. viii.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

A HOTEL SITTING-ROOM I am calling this paper after a hotel sitting-room because some of one's most recurrent and definite trains of thought are most hopelessly obstinate about getting an intelligible name, so that I take advantage of this one having been brought to a head in a real room of the kind.
— from Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life by Vernon Lee

For ever streams are flowing, For ever seeds are growing, Alway is Nature showing That Action rules the world.
— from Poems of Sentiment by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Just because our plans have all gone awry is no sign that they always will.
— from Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer by Josephine Chase

Those at the end, Von Rosen and the Princess, the Prince and Princess, and the Princess and Gondremarck, as I now see them from here, should be nuts, Henley, nuts.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is just so when I am going anywhere: I never saw the like in my life," said she.
— from Three Years in Europe: Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown