If Lombard Street is an ideal place for banks, is not a park like the Central Avenue of Garden City an ideal place for schools?—and is not the welfare of our children the primary consideration with any well-ordered community?”
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

(Whether I cogitate the number in the addition of both, is not at present the question; for in the case of an analytical proposition, the only point is whether I really cogitate the predicate in the representation of the subject.)
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Society is supposed to be a pleasant place; telling people disagreeable things to their faces or behind their backs is not a pleasant occupation.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

If the bridesmaid is not a particular friend of the bride, she knows perfectly that it is on Jim's account that she has been asked.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

And with this view the teacher and the learner ought to use the sounds of the lyre, because its notes are pure, the player who teaches and his pupil rendering note for note in unison; but complexity, and variation of notes, when the strings give one sound and the poet or composer of the melody gives another—also when they make concords and harmonies in which lesser and greater intervals, slow and quick, or high and low notes, are combined—or, again, when they make complex variations of rhythms, which they adapt to the notes of the lyre—all that sort of thing is not suited to those who have to acquire speedy and useful knowledge of music in three years; for opposite principles are confusing, and create a difficulty in learning, and our young men should learn quickly, and their mere necessary acquirements are not few or trifling, as will be shown in due course.
— from Laws by Plato

On the contrary, pleasure in the Beautiful is neither a pleasure of enjoyment nor of a law-abiding activity, nor even of rational contemplation in accordance with Ideas, but of mere reflection.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Bappa is not a proper name, it signifies merely a ‘child.’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

His wife, his son, his uncle, (a barber in name and profession,) exposed the contrast of vulgar manners and princely expense; and without acquiring the majesty, Rienzi degenerated into the vices, of a king.
— 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

And over all the consuls exercised a power—in time, indeed, only annual, but in nature and prerogative completely royal.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was such a review of the history of opinion as we have now made, which led Dr. Bentley to declare that "the agency of invisible beings, if not a part of every religion, is not contrary to any one.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

Buttered white paper in the bottom and sides of pans for cake requiring long baking, is needful; and paper not buttered is good for other kinds of cake, as it prevents burning.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius

Doubtless those fragments of crystal, sheathed, by centuries in the earth, in a translucent film through which shine tints of mother-of-pearl, have met the eyes of many of us, but it needed a poet to deduce from them this illustration: Fair crystal cups are dug from earth’s old crust, Shattered but lovely, for, at price of all Their shameful exile from the banquet-hall, They have been bargaining beauties from the dust.
— from The Younger American Poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Faith in God is to him a mightier resource than the boasted iron nerve and proud unconquerable will of nature.
— from Bible Emblems by Edward Eli Seelye

But God , who made all things for his creatures, and gave them taste, fancy, and a sense exquisitely alive to the beautiful, intended no ascetic privation of the innocent objects which minister to these faculties.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 6, December 1843 by Various

In the first place, Madame de V.‘s beard is not a perennial beard; her niece told me that she sheds her moustaches every autumn.
— from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Complete by Gustave Droz

Dr. William Hargreaves says:— “Brandy is not a prophylactic.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

When it went out of existence in 1869, there had been few outrages, but its name and prestige lived after it and served to hide the evil deeds of all sorts and conditions of outlaws.
— from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by John C. Lester

286 ; it will be a political fiction, 286 ; hostility to the Union would prompt to join the hue and cry against this institution, 286 ; it is said that debate is useless on this question, 287 ; to form a correct opinion we must retrospect the defects of the old government, and ascertain the remedy which was anticipated in the present constitution, 287 ; the great cause of the inefficiency of the former was owing to its dependence on the States for the means to carry its powers into effect, 287 ; the present constitution was framed with ample authority to pass all laws necessary and proper for the attainment of its objects, 287 ; erroneous impressions have arisen from ignorance of facts relative to the practical fiscal operations of the government, 287 ; the power to create a bank is not derived by implication, 287 ; the Convention granted to the new Government in express and unequivocal language, ample authority to use all the means necessary and proper for the attainment of the ends for which it was instituted, 287 ; the question of constitutionality depends upon facts dehors the instrument, 287 ; if it be a fact that a bank is necessary and proper to effectuate the legitimate powers of government, then our power is express, and we need not resort to implication, 287 ; endeavor to prove this to be a fact, 287 ; the erection of a bank by the Congress of 1781, 287 ; the opinion of General Hamilton, 288 ; character of the Congress of 1781 stated, 288 ; authority of Washington, 288 ; the cry is, "down with the bank, huzzah for the party!" 288 ; sound interpretation of the words "necessary and proper," 289 ; those opposed to the bill, predicate their arguments upon the probability that the State banks will answer, this is an admission of the necessity, 289 ; congeniality between a bank and the collection of our revenue, 289 ; the repeated sanctions the bank has received from different Administrations is strangely accounted for, 290 ; whence was derived a power to pass a law, laying an embargo without limitation, 290 ; twelfth article of the amendments to the constitution considered, 290 ; it is not pretended that our fiscal concerns could be managed with gold and silver, 290 ; if the bank is removed, the Secretary of the Treasury must nationalize the bank paper of the great importing States, 291 ; charges of British influence, 291 ; the embarrassments at Philadelphia, it is said, could not have been occasioned by the bank, 292 ; Kentucky, I am only thine, 292 ; former course of proceeding in regard to the principle of a bill and its details, 292 ; the course of the press on this subject, 292 ; it is said, that this question is discussed on party grounds, 293 ; a view of the beginning and operations of the bank, 293 ; no democrat has been admitted as a director of this institution, except in New York, 294 ; petty mischievous intrigue for carrying measures through Congress, 294 ; for what do merchants form a part of the bank deputies? 294 ; what did mechanics here say relative to granting this charter?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress