The value of a share in a joint stock is always the price which it will bring in the market; and this may be either greater or less in any proportion, than the sum which its owner stands credited for in the stock of the company.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

BRAVERY, extravagant gaiety of apparel. BRAVO, bravado, swaggerer.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

(6) Balch, Emily G. Our Slavic Fellow Citizens.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

[3] It is not in our power to be either good or bad.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Taking supporters as an appanage of right of barony (either greater or lesser), there can be no doubt that the greater baronies, and consequently the supporters attached to them, devolved upon heirs female, and upon the heir of line inheriting through a female ancestor; and, presumably, the same considerations must of necessity hold good with regard to those supporters which are borne by right of lesser barony, for the greater and the lesser were the same thing, differing only in degree, until in the year 1587 the lesser barons were relieved of compulsory attendance in Parliament.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

BRAVERY, extravagant gaiety of apparel.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

But when death is past, how can that which no longer is be either good or evil?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The hearse was followed by eight gentlemen, one of whom was weeping, while the others were chatting together, but there was no priest, and I thought to myself: “This is a non-religious funeral,” and then I reflected that a town like Loubain must contain at least a hundred freethinkers, who would have made a point of making a manifestation.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It is not that all processes are supposed to be equally good, or all persons to be equally qualified for everything; but that freedom of individual choice is now known to be the only thing which procures the adoption of the best processes, and throws each operation into the hands of those who are best qualified for it.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

As fast as I fag up the names of those beastly Egyptian gods or kings and queens, they run out of my brains like water out of a sieve.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

At noon the British embassy gave out the announcement that “a distinguished person” had cabled for detailed information and had begged to be kept in hourly touch with the developments.
— from Fresh Every Hour Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child. by John Peter Toohey

Everywhere the mountains keep their contents on the boil; earth tremors are every day’s experience; gushes of unseen evil vapours steal upon one with such cunningness and speed, that it is often hard to flee in time before one is choked and killed; poisons well up into the rivers, yet leave their colour unchanged; great cracks split across the ground reaching down to the fires beneath, and the waters gush into these, and are shot forth again with devastating explosion; and always may be expected great outpourings of boiling mud or molten rock.
— from The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

Nay, not only hold thine own, but to show thyself to be a knight of prowess shouldst it come to a battle between thee and thy father's enemy; for there lieth no half-way place for thee, and thou must be either great or else nothing.
— from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

Crept the raw hides, and with a bellowing sound Roared the dead limbs; the burning entrails groaned. ("Odyssey," xii. 395.)
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

The sunken black eyes, gleaming out of bloodshot sockets, alone told of life.
— from The Message by Louis Tracy

The phenomenon was witnessed by excited groups of natives from the beach at Sekondi, for never within living memory had any ship bearing their countrymen steered a course that was not parallel to the shore; and when the vessel at last disappeared below the skyline something like consternation prevailed.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

These effects must be either good or bad.
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat