Ut immodica corporis exercitatio nocet corporibus, ita vita deses, et otiosa: otium, animal pituitosum reddit, viscerum obstructiones et crebras fluxiones, et morbos concitat. 1542 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Jack followed his instructions, and the captive, completely exhausted, now came in fast enough, proving to be far larger than any of those present had expected to see, but about a tenth of what Jack had imagined from the strength the creature had displayed.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

Let us get the value of our money in strength and influence instead of casting every new cannon in an ecstasy of terror and then being afraid to aim it at anybody.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

We can exercise no choice in whom we give or lend our money to.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

Lastly, there are in every language, as another has truly said, a vast number of words, such as “sacrifice,” “sacrament,” “mystery,” “eternity,” which may be explained by the idea, though the idea cannot be discovered by the word, as is the case with whatever belongs to the mystery of the mind; and this of itself is enough to disprove the conclusion which nominalists would draw from the origin of words, and to prove that, whatever the derivation of “truth,” its etymology can establish nothing concerning its essence; and we are still at liberty to regard it as independent, immutable, and eternal, having its archetype in the Divine mind.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

The water could evidently not condense into a state of fluid drops until the temperature of the atmosphere had considerably decreased.
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

VI CAMPING OUT It seems to be agreed that civilization is kept up only by a constant effort: Nature claims its own speedily when the effort is relaxed.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3 by Charles Dudley Warner

It is a deaf and useless God, who can effect no change in general laws, to which he is himself subject.
— from Good Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

Although the number of the clergy and the monks was very large, and their wealth, especially in Castile, enormous, no Church in Europe was more completely under royal control.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson