| 1. | For angers sake, finite to infinit. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | The finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think about. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | What Daniel of their thousands hath reveal'd With finite number infinite conceals. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 5. | But the mathematician argues, from his finite truths, through habit, as if they were of an absolutely general applicability--as the world indeed imagines them to be. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | How confidently did my dream contemplate this finite world, not new-fangledly, not old-fangledly, not timidly, not entreatingly-. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 7. | That the good is of the nature of the finite is a peculiarly Hellenic sentiment, which may be compared with the language of those modern writers who speak of virtue as fitness, and of freedom as obedience to law. - from The Republic by Plato |