The sort of facts which are now generally recognized as important in the study, not merely of society, but the problems of society are: a ) Statistics: numbers, local distribution, mobility, incidence of births, deaths, disease, and crime.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As then, we daily see, without any change or variation, —the rest 169 Swiftly pursue the course to which they’re bound; And with the heavens the days and nights go round; the contemplation of which, to a mind desirous of observing the constancy of nature, is inexhaustible.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

" [Pg 309] FOOTNOTES: 1 Histories of warfare, of politics (though there are no good recent ones, Edward Jenks' little book being half a century out of date), of political theory (especially the excellent though dissimilar volumes by G. H. Sabine and by G. E. C. Catlin), of particular countries, of diplomacy, of religion, and even of literature all cast a certain amount of light on the subject.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

She knew that the sordid people who crept hard-scaled and separate on the face of the world's corruption were living still, that the rainbow was arched in their blood and would quiver to life in their spirit, that they would cast off their horny covering of disintegration, that new, clean, naked bodies would issue to a new germination, to a new growth, rising to the light and the wind and the clean rain of heaven.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Nine wounds I bear; a medal and four clasps and the medal of an Order, for my captains, who are now generals, remembered me when the Kaisar-i-Hind had accomplished fifty years of her reign, and all the land rejoiced.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The three oldest are now going regularly to school—two can read and write, and the other can spell, with tolerable correctness, words of two syllables.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

You are not going, Robert?
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

The linen manufacture, indeed, is in England, by a particular statute, open to every body; but as it is not much cultivated through the greater part of the country, it can afford no general resource to the work men of other decaying manufactures, who, wherever the statute of apprenticeship takes place, have no other choice, but dither to come upon the parish, or to work as common labourers; for which, by their habits, they are much worse qualified than for any sort of manufacture that bears any resemblance to their own.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

One must learn to love oneself—thus do I teach—with a wholesome and healthy love: that one may endure to be with oneself, and not go roving about.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For example of the action of a national government, rightly so called, in these matters, I refer the student to the Mariegolas of Venice, translated in Fors Clavigera; and I close this chapter, and this first volume of Proserpina, not without pride, in the words I wrote on this same matter eighteen years ago.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

Beach W was in a bay enclosed by hills through which a narrow gully running down to the sea opened out a break in the cliffs.
— from The Post of Honour Stories of Daring Deeds Done by Men of the British Empire in the Great War by Richard Wilson

It is kept in a much better state for navigation, so far as the depth of water is concerned, than the old canal, which from inattention is gradually shoaling in places; consequently the regular steam-packets which ply between Elizabeth City and Norfolk, as well as steamers whose destinations are further north, have given up the use of the Dismal Swamp Canal, and now go round through Albemarle Sound up the North River, thence by a six-mile cut into Currituck Sound, up North Landing River, and through the new canal to the Elizabeth River and into Chesapeake Bay.
— from Voyage of the Paper Canoe A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5 by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

Here’s an order for five pounds, Charley, ye villain; they’re good, as yet , and now go ride him yourself, and let me enjoy myself looking on.’
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

There are no good reasons why girls also should not succeed.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

"No, I am not good," replied Miss Bernard Temple, "and I am not doing this in any sense for you.
— from Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade

I am no great reader, but have met some words which go well with the thoughts I harboured at this time of Monsieur Charles Miste, for I could "Read rascal in the motions of his back, And scoundrel in the subtle sliding knee."
— from Dross by Henry Seton Merriman

The White House was the centre and headquarters of the Hackney Marsh sportsmen, and the sports they followed were mostly of that description which, albeit still permissible, are now generally regarded as somewhat brutal and blackguardly in character.
— from Birds in London by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson