But it is to be remembered that it is never indifferent whether a man pleads guilty or not guilty, and later on, especially in another case, it may be quite the reverse of indifferent whether a man is condemned because of a matter indifferent to-day.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The idea of a cause then is a pure conception; for, inasmuch as it is a cause, it must be a cause of something; otherwise it would be no cause at all.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

How cool it must be outside!
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave; Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Home, troubled in mind for these passages with my Lord, but am resolved to better my case in my business to make my stand upon my owne legs the better and to lay up as well as to get money, and among other ways I will have a good fleece out of Creed’s coat ere it be long, or I will have a fall.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In such cases it may be presumed that neither party expects to receive a blow from the other.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The position of the tail is one of those matters which are left to the artist, and unless the blazon contains any statement to the contrary, it may be placed in any convenient position.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Since the accidents of the wafer don't change in the Lord's supper, and yet it has become the very body of Christ, it must be that the change is in the substance solely.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

For the explanation of tragic myth the very first requirement is that the pleasure which characterises it must be sought in the purely æsthetic sphere, without encroaching on the domain of pity, fear, or the morally-sublime.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To be brief, last of all she has commanded me to go through all the provinces of Spain and compel all the knights-errant wandering therein to confess that she surpasses all women alive to-day in beauty, and that I am the most valiant and the most deeply enamoured knight on earth; in support of which claim I have already travelled over the greater part of Spain, and have there vanquished several knights who have dared to contradict me; but what I most plume and pride myself upon is having vanquished in single combat that so famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, and made him confess that my Casildea is more beautiful than his Dulcinea; and in this one victory I hold myself to have conquered all the knights in the world; for this Don Quixote that I speak of has vanquished them all, and I having vanquished him, his glory, his fame, and his honour have passed and are transferred to my person; for The more the vanquished hath of fair renown, The greater glory gilds the victor's crown.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Yes,” I cried, “immortality must be within man’s reach; and, as wisdom alone is worthy of such a blessing, to the wise alone must the secret have been revealed.
— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

Note Many of these stories and rhymes appeared originally in the Ladies’ Home Journal , and were signed either with my initials, or with names of characters in my books.
— from Three Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

When the engine is cold it may be necessary to prime it by pulling out the carburetor priming rod, which is located on the instrument board.
— from Ford Manual for Owners and Operators of Ford Cars and Trucks (1919) by Ford Motor Company

And aside from these more or less spiritual enjoyments, for which more than one lad in the town would have made stupendous sacrifices, and looking only at the material aspect of existence or bodily comforts, it must be laid down as a fact that Menino lived in his cage like an archbishop, with every want satisfied, supplied with hemp-seed on one side, with canary-seed on the other, at one time treated to lettuce, at others to lumps of chocolate, at others to crumbs soaked in milk; indeed, to ask more was to offend God.
— from The Marquis of Peñalta (Marta y María): A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

Not disposed to hear such offensive repetitions, I declined entering any further into the story; and merely said, that, if the person was a visitor in the castle, it might be proper for her to signify to him that his intrusion in the Rock and wood would be displeasing to my uncle, and highly inconvenient to me.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

A man may be a clergyman, and it may be his official business to expound and defend the creed which is set up for him by his employers, his bishop, his association, or his parish, to defend and hold it good against all comers; it may be, also, in a certain solemn sort, to [Pg 143] please the audience, who come to be soothed, caressed, and comforted,—to represent the average of religion in his society, and so to bless popular virtues and ban unpopular vices, but never to shake off or even jostle with one of his fingers the load of sin, beloved and popular, which crushes his hearers down till they are bowed together and can in nowise lift themselves up; unpopular excellence he is to call fanaticism, if not infidelity.
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

It is a dreadful destiny for a young man, but in his case it may be the best thing that he can do."
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

I’ll carry it myself; but I’m just as much obliged to you; and, to show my gratitude, won’t you take something?
— from The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. (George Melville) Baker

In this, and in all cases, it must be remembered that the account of the examination comes to us from those who were under the wildest excitement against the prisoners; that no counsel was allowed them; that, if any thing was suffered to be said in their defence by others, it has failed to reach us; that the accused persons were wholly unaccustomed to such scenes and exposures, unsuspicious of the perils of a cross-examination, or of an inquisition conducted with a design to entrap and ensnare; and that what they did say was liable to be misunderstood, as well as misrepresented.
— 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

At the end of eighteen months, he says, "the idea struck me" of rendering cast iron malleable by the introduction of atmospheric air into the fluid metal.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale