We [71] must, therefore, not only avoid the latter, but also beware of ambition for wealth; for there is nothing so characteristic of narrowness and littleness of soul as the love of riches; and there is nothing more honourable and noble than to be indifferent to money, if one does not possess it, and to devote it to beneficence and liberality, if one does possess it.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The second tetralogy is that of which the first piece is the Cratylus, or the correctness of names, a logical one.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

After a slight but grateful compliment, he told me that if I thought myself capable of negotiating a loan of a hundred millions to bear interest at four per cent., he would do all in his power to help me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He spoke, and far beneath the flood maiden Panopea heard him, with all Phorcus' choir of Nereids, and lord Portunus with his own mighty hand pushed him on his way.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The King’s Closet at the Tuileries W e will leave Villefort on the road to Paris, travelling—thanks to trebled fees—with all speed, and passing through two or three apartments, enter at the Tuileries the little room with the arched window, so well known as having been the favorite closet of Napoleon and Louis XVIII., and now of Louis Philippe.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Here, then, is the programme of the following work: Starting with the immediate flux, in which all objects and impulses are given, to describe the Life of Reason; that is, to note what facts and purposes seem to be primary, to show how the conception of nature and life gathers around them, and to point to the ideals of thought and action which are approached by this gradual mastering of experience by reason.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The characters of nature are legible, it is true; but they are not plain enough to enable those who run, to read them.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

As Prof. Nettleship has pointed out, this seems to indicate that there are two words, laquear from laqueus , meaning chain or network, and lacuar or lacunar from lacus , meaning sunk work.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

“Why spend my good money on a crowd of no accounts like you?”
— from Marjorie Dean, College Freshman by Josephine Chase

The American custom of numbering and lettering streets is almost always ascribed by English writers who discuss it, not to a desire to make finding them easy, but to sheer poverty of invention.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

"Come on now and let those fancies alone," said Pelle earnestly.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

About the men and women whom he had known since then he did not seem to care, or not at least so vitally.
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

Naturally, the arrival of the Mannig contingent occasioned not a little interest.
— from Four Afoot: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Highway by Ralph Henry Barbour

Moreover the coast of Northern Africa, lying along the southern horizon as one nears Gibraltar, is one of the few sights of a European trip that are not disappointing.
— from Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The first missionary, the Rev. T. L. Brevig , not only served the colony of Norwegians and Lapps, but went promptly to work among the native Esquimaux.
— from The Story of Lutheran Missions by Elsie Singmaster

It was a case of " nos amis les ennemis ," and the French, beaten every where in the field, obtained facile and frequent triumphs in the boudoir.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

Here lies the commentary on not a little in Stendhal's life and works.
— from On Love by Stendhal

On leaving Oxford he had visited the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador, to obtain information on scientific subjects.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston