Either point of view is legitimate, and both are often required; for we commonly recognise that, of the series of acts which a man does to attain ( e.g. ) any end of ambition, some may be right or allowable, while others are wrong; while the general intention to attain the end by wrong means, if necessary, as well as right— “Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place”— is clearly a wrong intention.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The chocolate, already poured into cups and with whipped cream on top, is passed on a tray by a servant.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But though I feel the weight Cicero's authority must carry on such a point, I cannot agree with him; I hold, on the contrary, that, for want of enough such changes, the destruction of the State must be hastened.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And it also seems perfectly evident to me that this hypothesis is not in consonance with the view of Erasistratus, when it declares that what he calls simple and primary is composite, and when it destroys the principle of Nature’s artistic skill.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

And yet from out the bosom of it a partial ideality constantly arises which keeps alive our aspiration that the whole may some day be construed in ideal form.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

At length, she retired from business—and the pillory—to Hempstead, where she lived on her ill-earned gains, but paid for a pew in church, and was charitable at appointed seasons, and died in peace in 1747.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But since Chichikov noticed that, after doing so, he added only a scanty modicum of the mixture to his own tumbler, our hero determined to be cautious, and therefore took advantage of a moment when Nozdrev had again plunged into conversation and was yet a third time engaged in refilling his brother-in-law’s glass, to contrive to upset his (Chichikov’s) glass over his plate.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

For a whole hour we carried on a conversation of a perfectly imaginary character, and with all the simplicity of perfect truth.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In speaking of the Egyptians, he says: “At their convivial banquets, among the wealthy classes, when they have finished supper, a man carries round in a coffin the image of a dead body carved in wood, made as life-like as possible in color and workmanship, and in size generally about one or two cubits in length; and showing this to each of the company, he says: ‘Look upon this, then drink and enjoy yourself; for when dead you will be like this.’
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

A woman who goes herself to a man, and tells him of her having enjoyed sexual union with him in a dream, and expresses her anger at his wife having rebuked him for calling her by the name of her rival instead of by her own name, and gives him something bearing the marks of her teeth and nails, and informs him that she knew she was formerly desired by him, and asks him privately whether she or his wife is the best looking, such a person is called a woman who is a go-between for herself.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

It is most common in females, the natural conformation of their thigh-bones disposing them to bend inwards; and from falling awkwardly, particularly if carrying a weight, the ligament is apt to give way.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

Avery Van Brunt laughed, knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and put it carefully away with the pouch, and loosened the hunting-knife in its sheath at his hip.
— from Children of the Frost by Jack London

On the mat in the passage, 'Tilda, the servant, lay still insensible, so Mrs. Presk lifted her in her strong arms and carried her to the kitchen to be revived as speedily as possible, in case, as was almost certain, her evidence might be wanted.
— from The Lady from Nowhere: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

He was then presented to the Chancellor and Proctors in congregation, and, with hand laid upon the Bible, swore, in a kneeling posture, that he would keep the statutes, would actually incept—we shall see what this means presently—within a year, that he would not spend more [Pg 105] at his inception than the sum allowed, that he would neither lecture nor hear lectures at Stamford
— from The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell

My life was a problem in ciphers, a weary and profitless sum.
— from Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

In times when it was the mode to imitate stage-coachmen as closely as possible in costume, and when the hair was invariably cropped, like that of our soldiers, this eccentricity was very striking.
— from Shelley at Oxford by Thomas Jefferson Hogg

The sojourn of the apostle Paul in Arabia, it is apparent, was for a purpose in close analogy with that of Jesus in the wilderness, as already described.
— from The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. (Richard Brodhead) Westbrook

On the 1st of MAY next, 1850, will be published, price 2 s. 6 d. PART I. of HISTORIC RELIQUES; A Series of Representations of ARMS, JEWELLERY, GOLD AND SILVER PLATE, FURNITURE, ARMOUR, &c., In Royal and Noble Collections, Colleges, and Public Institutions, &c., and which FORMERLY BELONGED TO INDIVIDUALS EMINENT IN HISTORY.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various