The Federal judges must not only be good citizens, and men possessed of that information and integrity which are indispensable to magistrates, but they must be statesmen—politicians, not unread in the signs of the times, not afraid to brave the obstacles which can be subdued, nor slow to turn aside such encroaching elements as may threaten the supremacy of the Union and the obedience which is due to the laws.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Every man exists by sovereign natural right, and, consequently, by sovereign natural right performs those actions which follow from the necessity of his own nature; therefore by sovereign natural right every man judges what is good and what is bad, takes care of his own advantage according to his own disposition (IV. xix.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Letters poured in upon Miss Anthony urging her to relinquish all idea of a convention, but she never had learned to give up.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

in evil strait this day I stand Before my Judge, either to undergoe My self the total Crime, or to accuse My other self, the partner of my life; Whose failing, while her Faith to me remaines, I should conceal, and not expose to blame 130 By my complaint; but strict necessitie Subdues me, and calamitous constraint, Least on my head both sin and punishment, However insupportable, be all Devolv'd; though should I hold my peace, yet thou Wouldst easily detect what I conceale.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Mrs. Gardner lifted her lorgnette and gazed after their flying forms as if she had never seen cats before, and Anne, choking back slightly nervous laughter, apologized as best she could.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

It is of a fine, cool, binding, strengthening nature, excellently good to repel hot rheums or vapours that ascend up to the head, the hair being shaved off, and it applied to the crown.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The seething of these potent and ambiguous elements can be studied nowhere better than in Saint Augustine.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

So we progressed, incessantly charmed by some new marvel.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Then, drawing near the bed and perceiving that the lady and a little girl, who was with her, were fast asleep, he softly altogether uncovered the former and found that she was as fair, naked, as clad, but saw no sign about her that he might carry away, save one, to wit, a mole which she had under the left pap and about which were sundry little hairs as red as gold.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

She pointed to her black dress, edged with crape, but said nothing.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

They are connected by so narrow an isthmus that five hundred dollars, it is said, would pay the expense of uniting them: and their islands together amount, it is said also, to exactly three hundred and sixty-five.
— from American Scenery, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Si le lecteur est à même de me sauver qu’il se dépêche car Bélître Scélérat ne sera pas à
— from A Blundering Boy: A Humorous Story by Bruce Weston Munro

Oh, didn't he raise a yell louder than anything you ever heard, and then I told him that if I could not get back the coat I would give him ten pounds for certain by Saturday next.
— from Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

I can do something in the world, I can succeed, I can be somebody now—and now I want to, want to!
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough

Geissler hears, and calls back sharply: "No."
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

[Pg 121] "Perhaps they ought to be considered, being so numerous."
— from A Change of Air by Anthony Hope