To avoid an arbitrary discretion in the courts, it is indispensable that they should be bound down by strict rules and precedents, which serve to define and point out their duty in every particular case that comes before them; and it will readily be conceived from the variety of controversies which grow out of the folly and wickedness of mankind, that the records of those precedents must unavoidably swell to a very considerable bulk, and must demand long and laborious study to acquire a competent knowledge of them.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Heraclitus saith well, in one of his enigmas, “Dry light is ever the best;” 320 and certain it is, that the light that a man 176 receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Pre-War Average Annual Imports of Coffee into the United States by Countries Fiscal years: 1910–1914 Total pounds:
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

These taxes might, I admit, bring certain fashionable articles of dress and amusement to an untimely end; but it would be only to substitute others, by which the artificer would gain, and the exchequer suffer no loss.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I think it is delightful,” he said, referring to a diplomatic note that had been sent to Vienna with some Austrian banners captured from the French by Wittgenstein, “the hero of Petropol” as he was then called in Petersburg.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On an expedition, the big ceremonial feast, held at the start, refers to the Kula; the final ceremony of reckoning and counting the spoil refers to Kula, not to the objects of trade obtained.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Times , as representing the eternities, 457 , 47; bad, but compensations, 67 , 20; now babbly, now dumb, 58 , 42; past, a seven-sealed book, 67 , 19; spirit of the, 67 , 19; spirit of the, defined, 535 , 49; the, a fatal trait of, 427 , 18; the, a tendency of, 429 , 45; the, always mean and hard, 35 , 2; the, and our duty to them, 567 , 29; the background of, dark, 322 , 30; the, unjust complaint of, 275 , 42; the, insoluble by us, 521 , 30; these naughty, 322 , 18 Time-shadows , only, perishable, 219 , 54 Timid , man, in love, 202 , 55 Timing of things, 458 , 1 Tiresome , secret of being, 452 , 43 Tit for tat , 1 , 45 Title-page , as index of book, 265 , 38 Titles , and men, 204 , 36; high, effect on weak minds, 238 , 28; noble, alone transferable, 484 , 10 Titus , saying of, 65 , 39 Toady , a, defined by Disraeli, 408 , 28 To-day , and to-morrow, 155 , 42, 43; 283, 45 , 46; Carlyle on, 395 , 3; happiness of owning, 140 , 26; sayings about, 491 , 27-30; value of, 107 , 12; value of insight into, 123 , 14; why we lose, 529 , 32; worth of, compared with to-morrow, 334 , 26 Toe , light fantastic, 44 , 38 Toil , a necessity, 526 , 26; effect of change of, 482 , 8; effect of, on native character, 314 , 11; sons of, Carlyle's apostrophe to, 323 , 2; vain, without heaven's grace, 323 , 5 Toiler , only, to have, 169 , 10 Toleration , our, 529 , 25; rule and limit in, 395 , 9 Tomb , before death, or none, 171 , 13 To-morrow , gone and coming, 340 , 2; not to be cared for, 409 , 24; pupil of to-day, 68 , 52 Tongue , a killing and a quiet sword, 142 , 41; and its issues, 520 , 25; an evil persuasive, 33 , 2; as a traveller's outfit, 41 , 28; 42 , 5; compared with {pg 649} fire and sword, 106 , 38; cowards with the, 45 , 14; evil, an evil mind, 250 , 14; evil, bite of, 307 , 22; evil, its owner, 188 , 26; holiday to, 123 , 39; instrument of good and evil, 153 , 41; readiness with the, 510 , 25; restraining, as a virtue, 250 , 18; sayings about, 258 , 5-11; to be confined, 46 , 25; power of, 55 , 36; 191 , 33; 174 , 36; venom of, 474 , 43; want of eloquent, a misfortune, 39 , 17; worst part of bad servant, 250 , 15 Tongues , compared to clocks that run on striking, 398 , 9; evil, pain of, 482 , 23; in trees, 408 , 20 Too much, a defect, 516 , 35 Tools , a necessity for all, 294 , 49; all man's invention, 262 , 22; and the man, our modern epic, 449 , 40; to him that can handle them, 224 , 26; use of, confined to man, 262 , 47 Top , attempt to reach, at a leap, 200 , 42 Topic , lovingly and thoroughly treated, effect on us of, 542 , 17 Torrents , strong, their charge, 455 , 36 Touch ,
— 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.

To damage by undue mental exertion by burning the "midnight oil," exhausting the brain cells faster than they can be renewed.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Only lately councillor Kubrikov, a man of sixty-two, with the Stanislav Order on his breast, came forward uninvited and confessed in a voice full of feeling that he had beyond a shadow of doubt been for fully three months under the influence of the Internationale.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yet it could not be concealed from her; she must needs know it.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I suppose it wouldn't—Do you think, Mrs. Rosewarne—would it be convenient for you to come for a drive so far?" "Oh, it would be the very best thing in the world for her—nothing could be better," said Wenna; and then she added meekly, "if it is not giving you too much trouble, Mr. Trelyon."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

There were some who would soon themselves be central figures in a similar spectacle.
— from Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life by Rossiter Johnson

Yet in his own house his fortune shall be contrariwise: for he alone of all the Danaan host, after that he shall have gathered up the bones of his dead son, shall by favour of the gods come back with unharmed folk to the wide streets of Abas[4].'
— from The Extant Odes of Pindar Translated with Introduction and Short Notes by Ernest Myers by Pindar

The veins stood out at his temples, his hairy nostrils opened and closed as his breath came faster, his long arms shot out and his great paws clutched at my throat.
— from The Man with the Clubfoot by Valentine Williams

Yet since it hath not so hapned, we hope that the Doctor hath taken so much the better care for it.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

These, then, in so far as the Romans are concerned, fall in the time before Christ, for the Jewish [Pg 479] people were already subjected to the Roman dominion by Pompey.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

The blood came from one of the eucalypta , popularly called the blue gum-tree.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 by Various

A hotel in Liverpool boasts of a bed in which Oliver Cromwell once slept, and certainly he could have occupied it without being cramped for space.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

The “Acta Pilati” and the “Apostolical Constitutions,” since their date is somewhat doubtful, shall be claimed for the iv th century only, and not for the iii rd .
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

It was necessary to study the outlines, nervation, and microscopic structure of the leaves, with a degree of care which had never been called for in the classification of living plants, where the flower and fruit afforded characters so much more definite and satisfactory.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir