You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream
No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.
A mere society form of Atheism.
I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.