Up, and all the morning at my office till 3 after noon with Mr. Hater about perfecting my little pocket market book of the office, till my eyes were ready to fall out of my head, and then home to dinner, glad that I had done so much, and so abroad to White Hall, to the Commissioners of the Treasury, and there did a little business with them, and so home, leaving multitudes of solicitors at their door, of one sort or other, complaining for want of such despatch as they had in my Lord Treasurer’s time, when I believe more business was despatched, but it was in his manner to the King’s wrong.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The assumption that information which has [Pg 53] been accumulated apart from use in the recognition and solution of a problem may later on be freely employed at will by thought is quite false.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

[1] Not that Alaü ( pace Mr. Longfellow) ever did see Cambalu.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

[Greek: pou stô]—Where I may stand, and plant my lever.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

You don't forget how happily and peacefully my life is all marked out for me, and by whom?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Monsieur, a poor Man with a large family must not lose certain profit because 'tis attended with a little danger, and perhaps my Lord the Baron may give me a trifle for my pains.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I have frequently instituted a search for them, yet I have not found them, and I do not know whether the cause is that the passage of time has destroyed them, and so they are not preserved, or whether the persons to whom I entrusted the errand perhaps did not search for them with sufficient diligence; for I was living abroad and passing my life on an islet far from the city.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

At that time, Meiggs was a prominent man, lived in style in a large house on Broadway, was a member of the City Council, and owned large saw-mills up the coast about Mendocino.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

77 But the fierce and illiterate chieftain was seldom qualified to discharge the duties of a judge, which required all the faculties of a philosophic mind, laboriously cultivated by experience and study; and his rude ignorance was compelled to embrace some simple, and visible, methods of ascertaining the cause of justice.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This morning I and Dr. Peirce went over to the Beare at the Bridge foot, thinking to have met my Lord Hinchinbroke and his brother setting forth for France; but they being not come we went over to the Wardrobe, and there found that my Lord Abbot Montagu being not at Paris, my Lord hath a mind to have them stay a little longer before they go.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And in doing so I would impress upon you, Mr Secretary, that I am placing my life in your hands; but I do so without fear, believing that you are a Christian and will not betray me.”
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Forgetful of all else, I caught her to me and pressed my lips to hers in passionate grief.
— from A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet

It has in addition to a powerful microscope lens, a mineral glass for examining plants, minerals, etc.
— from The Pansy Magazine, June 1886 by Various

Only a poor man like me, with others depending on him, has got to be careful,” grumbled the old man, climbing down with so much haste that Dick would have laughed if he had not been so angry.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant

But never forget, that a peacock may look "in the retrospect" and be satisfied.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

By A PAKEHA MAORI. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL M.DCCC.LXIII.
— from Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by Frederick Edward Maning