A spirit undoubtedly has close relations with the body to which it is attached, but one employs a very inexact expression when he says that it is its soul.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I should say that they mean deceit, treachery, forgetfulness of human duties and proprieties, contrary to the law of God and vicious in every way.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The ambition to work wonders with the modest gifts at one's disposal is bound to be an 151 obsession in the beginning, so that the effort to transcend at every step one's natural powers, and therewith the bounds of truth and beauty, is always visible in early writings.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I am very ill even when you are near me; what should I be were you at a distance?' He had now a great desire to go to Oxford, as his first jaunt after his illness; we talked of it for some days, and I had promised to accompany him.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

An Irish Mystic’s Testimony Through the kindness of an Irish mystic, who is a seer, I am enabled to present here, in the form of a dialogue, very rare and very important evidence, which will serve to illustrate and to confirm what has just been said above about the mysticism of Ireland.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

A very intense emotion will often bring with it—especially where some future action or some undecided issue is involved—powerful compelling images which may determine the whole course of life, sweeping aside all contrary solicitations to the will by their capacity for exclusively possessing the mind.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

It is not precisely the same in any two of the States; and varies in each with every revision of its criminal laws.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It was called a "damned weed," a "detestable weed," a "base exotick," a "rank poison far-fetched and dear bought," a "base and unworthy Indian drink," and various ill effects were attributed to it—the decay of the teeth, and even the loss of the mental faculties.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

There is not another village in England with literary associations so numerous and august as Twickenham.
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

Her summers she spent at her place in the Adirondacks, at Northern watering-places, or in Europe; and the last two years had been passed, with brief intervals of Paris and Vienna, in England, where she had been presented with distinction and seen much of country life.
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

As to mere corporal punishment, there was not a village in England without its whipping post, and a common sight in the streets of the city was to see a poor wretch being whipped at [Pg 9] the cart’s tail.
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir

We must content ourselves with recalling its occurrence in an undeveloped form in the case of O. Among those who are affected with tics, disorders of writing are very infrequent, even where the tic's exhibition is displayed in the upper extremities.
— from Tics and Their Treatment by Henry Meige

I am very ill even when you are near me; what should I be were you at a distance?'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

I have been solicited to reprint the work, but do not think it fair to give a very imperfect edition when I could print it complete, which I do not choose to do, as I have an aversion to literary squabbles: one seems to think one's self too important when one engages in a controversy on one's writings; and when one does not vindicate them, the answerer passes for victor, as you see Dr. Kippis allots the palm to Dr. Milles, though you know I have so much more to say in defence of my hypothesis.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

—I will now describe a very interesting experiment which shows how an identical agent may, on account of difference in the tonic condition of the tissue, give rise to diametrically opposite effects.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose