But, I repeat, in many communities in the South the character of the ministry is being improved, and I believe that within the next two or three decades a very large proportion of the unworthy ones will have disappeared.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

And as no bodily evil can infect the soul, neither can any bodily evil, whether disease or violence, or any other destroy the soul, unless it can be shown to render her unholy and unjust.
— from The Republic by Plato

At their trial, it appeared that each had invested five cents in the story of border crime.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The dictator, after passing the highest encomiums on the consuls in the senate and before the people, and yielding up the honour of his own exploits to them, resigned his dictatorship.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

But I do not think that the learned Brother has put the case in the strongest light.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

If we set aside the unfortunate cases in which the individual held for examination is instructed by his prison-mates and becomes still more spoiled, I might permit myself the assertion that imprisonment tends to show the individual more correctly as he is; that the strange surroundings, the change from his former position, the opportunity to think over his situation may, if there are no opposing influences, help the criminalist a great deal, and this fact is confirmed in the superior results of later to earlier examinations.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

As a refuge from the last of the three, men imagined what they called the freedom of the will; fancying that they could not justify punishing a man whose will is in a thoroughly hateful state, unless it be supposed to have come into that state through no influence of anterior circumstances.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Criminals in the stocks, or pillory.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

How do you mean? B (2) The courage which makes the city courageous is found chiefly in the soldier.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The proposal of the French was first debated by the six sages who had been recently appointed to control the administration of the doge: it was next disclosed to the forty members of the council of state; and finally communicated to the legislative assembly of four hundred and fifty representatives, who were annually chosen in the six quarters of the city.
— 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

The case is too serious to take nigger evidence.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

You must have risen in the morning and seen the woods as they are by day, kindled and coloured in the sun’s light; you must have felt the odour of innumerable trees at even, the unsparing heat along the forest roads, and the coolness of the groves.
— from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

The only difference, however, consisted in the son’s nose not being quite so prominent, and therefore less exposed to the tricky and mysterious blows.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Graf von Sternberg, Austrian Excellency, writing from the spot and at the hour, informs his own Court, and through that all Courts, in these solemnly Official terms:— "DRESDEN, 10th SEPTEMBER, 1756.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle

Ninety children were sent to Lodz, in Poland, and thence to Gneisenau concentration camp, in the so-called Wartheland.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

The potatoes should be peeled, washed, and cut into thin slices, and the onions peeled and cut into thin slices.
— from Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes by T. R. (Thomas Richard) Allinson

Myrtella and Phineas Flathers had been cast into the sea of life at an early age to sink or swim as they saw fit.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Sir Robert had consented to go, as a man with no occupation elsewhere might consent to go to the Cannibal Islands, to see how the savages comported themselves.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It is that truth which will commend itself to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams