Since, therefore, arms have need of the mind, as much as letters, let us see now which of the two minds, that of the man of letters or that of the warrior, has most to do; and this will be seen by the end and goal that each seeks to attain; for that purpose is the more estimable which has for its aim the nobler object.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Many, undoubtedly, will object that we state the case too strongly; but if they will dispassionately examine the facts and compare them with the character of the leaders and the inevitable tendency of their teachings, they must be convinced that the apparently innocent measure of woman suffrage as a remedy for woman's wrongs in over-crowded populations, is but a pretext or entering wedge by which to open Pandora's box and let loose upon society a pestilential brood to destroy all that is pure and beautiful in human nature, and all that has been achieved by organized associations in religion, morality and refinement; that the whole plan is coarse, sensual and agrarian, the worst phase of French infidelity and communism....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

it follows that everyone endeavours, as far as possible, to cause others to love what he himself loves, and to hate what he himself hates: as the poet says: "As lovers let us share every hope and every fear: ironhearted were he who should love what the other leaves.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Let us suppose, for example, that the whole circulating money of some particular country amounted, at a particular time, to one million sterling, that sum being then sufficient for circulating the whole annual produce of their land and labour; let us suppose, too, that some time thereafter, different banks and bankers issued promissory notes payable to the bearer, to the extent of one million, reserving in their different coffers two hundred thousand pounds for answering occasional demands; there would remain, therefore, in circulation, eight hundred thousand pounds in gold and silver, and a million of bank notes, or eighteen hundred thousand pounds of paper and money together.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

She raced madly about, leaving long, useless splashes of black; then, leaping to a fanlight, she escaped up stairs to take refuge among the snowy draperies.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Mathesius, J., “Historien von des ehrwürdigen in Gott seligen thewren Manns Gottes Doctoris Martini Luther Anfang Lehr, Leben und Sterben,” Nürnberg, 1566, ed.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

I am hopeful that some of the experiences given in the following chapters may throw a little light upon some curious but very serious social problems.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

I too had had visions about my piano-playing beauty: but I had forgotten that ideal for ever and ever, for being able to play, after she knew her mother had run away.—But that was mere childish love, a child's thought—-there is something, however, in the heart which is awakened earlier, and dies later than passion, that is a feeling of honor, and I had as much of that as Lorand: let us see whose was the stronger.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

I think this weather will, for the present at least, let us sleep in tranquillity, and make our enemies set aside their projected invasion.
— from Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

The possessor and user of a large library undergoing such a calamity in a modified shape will be able to form a conception of the resources at his disposal, and to [155] calculate how long it will take him to exhaust the intellectual treasures at his command, just as a millionaire, haunted as such people sometimes are by the dread of coming on the parish, might test how long a life his invested capital would support by spending a winter in a Shetland cottage, and living on what he could procure.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

It was right at the top of a long, long upward slope of the whole plain, at a spot where the mist and the ground were blended till they could not say for certain whether the aeroplane was flying through the mist or running along the soil.
— from The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc

At length, looking up, she said— "Will you lift her out of her present embarrassed position, and settle upon her an income sufficient for herself and family?" "I will," was the prompt answer.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Beyond all this there was nothing new at Lagonda Ledge until suddenly the white-haired woman was up at Pigeon Place, again, a fact known only to old Bond Saxon and little Bug, who saw her leave the train.
— from A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter

"And what have you bought, Petrea?" now asked Louise; "let us see your bargains."
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer