It is true, those sentiments, from interest and morals, are apt to be confounded, and naturally run into one another.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The reason why we sometimes see that men of the greatest capacities are not rich, is either because they despise wealth in comparison of something else, or, at least, are not content to be getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, and at the same time enjoy all the pleasures and gratifications of life.
— 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.

My flesh is not real, although it would seem firm to your touch; my clothes are not real; I am a spirit.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

And nature demands that it should be so; for in the case of the acutest physical pain, and the sudden seizure by the greatest bodily fear, all reflection, that might have inculcated silent endurance, is entirely expelled from consciousness, and nature relieves itself by crying out, thus expressing both the pain and the fear, summoning the deliverer and terrifying the assailer.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Millions of men perpetrated against one another such innumerable crimes, frauds, treacheries, thefts, forgeries, issues of false money, burglaries, incendiarisms, and murders as in whole centuries are not recorded in the annals of all the law courts of the world, but which those who committed them did not at the time regard as being crimes.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Recollections of Guy Fawkes, &c. &c. /advertisement Nearly ready, in fcap.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Mirth and merry company may not be separated from music, both concerning and necessarily required in this business.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Such cases are not rare in mental pathology; but, as we still have some reasoning to do, we had better give no concrete account of them until the end of the chapter.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Receiving corrections and new reliable information.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

— N. newness &c. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity; youth &c. 127; gloss of novelty.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Unfortunately, our published collections are not rich in novels of this date; and next to the anonymous tale of Il Grasso, Legnaiuolo it is difficult to cite one of at all equal value, till we come to Luigi Pulci's story of Messer Goro and Pius II.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

Yet, if we cancel and not repudiate, if we can obtain the gold of France, of Europe—" "Body of God!
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough

But soon total silence succeeded to their cries, and the sound of their passage through the water; the sea grew calmer and calmer, and night retained its gentle peace even beneath the glowing sun.
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

FROM Chicago to Omaha by the Chicago and "Northwestern" route is not an exhilarating journey.
— from Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson

In 1903 Mr. Price was united in marriage to Miss L. Minerva Guernsey, a daughter of Dennis C. Guernsey, who took up his abode among the pioneer settlers of Columbia county and now resides in Starbuck.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

The canoe approached nearer, revealing its sole occupant to be a girl of fourteen or fifteen, clad in a dazzlingly white and distinctly tailored linen Russian blouse suit, with a pink satin tie, her curly golden hair surmounted by an immense bow of the same hue.
— from The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman

The country had enjoyed a decade of extraordinary financial prosperity, in the course of which, in the spirit of speculation which has already been mentioned, all values had been forced to too high a level, credits had been extended beyond the margin [ 325 ] of safety, and the volume of business transactions had swollen to such bulk in proportion to the amount of actual monetary wealth in existence that any shock to public confidence, any nervousness resulting in a contraction of the circulating medium, could not fail to produce catastrophe.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

Under him and Pierre de Corbeil (d. 1222), his successor and also a learned teacher from the Paris schools, the axis chapel at Sens was rebuilt, and the upper vaulting of choir and nave reconstructed in order to enlarge the windows.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly