The future still conceals from us the ulterior consequences of this emigration of the Americans towards the West; but we can readily apprehend its more immediate results.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Gentlemen, I shall ask you to go with me away from this court room and its minions of the law, away from the scene of this tragedy, to a distant, I wish I could say a happier day.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

"A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

When a son was born to him, all the city rejoiced, and it mourned with him when, in a few weeks, he lost the child.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The carriages were going toward Calle Rosario and in meeting those that came down off the Bridge of Spain had to move along slowly and stop frequently.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

It is one of the faults of our age to rely too much on cold reason, as if men were all mind.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For example: (1) one of the noblest statements to be found in antiquity about the preventive nature of punishment is put into his mouth; (2) he is clearly right also in maintaining that virtue can be taught (which Socrates himself, at the end of the Dialogue, is disposed to concede); and also (3) in his explanation of the phenomenon that good fathers have bad sons; (4) he is right also in observing that the virtues are not like the arts, gifts or attainments of special individuals, but the common property of all: this, which in all ages has been the strength and weakness of ethics and politics, is deeply seated in human nature; (5) there is a sort of half-truth in the notion that all civilized men are teachers of virtue; and more than a half-truth (6) in ascribing to man, who in his outward conditions is more helpless than the other animals, the power of self-improvement; (7) the religious allegory should be noticed, in which the arts are said to be given by Prometheus (who stole them), whereas justice and reverence and the political virtues could only be imparted by Zeus; (8) in the latter part of the Dialogue, when Socrates is arguing that 'pleasure is the only good,' Protagoras deems it more in accordance with his character to maintain that 'some pleasures only are good;' and admits that 'he, above all other men, is bound to say "that wisdom and knowledge are the highest of human things.
— from Protagoras by Plato

However, a few casual remarks about it may be in order here.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The multiplication of dactyls imparts to the verse a comparatively rapid and impetuous motion, as in the famous verse Quadrupe|dante pu|trem ‖ soni|tū quatit | ungula | campum (V. 8, 596).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Such stories may be found in the search of politicians for office, in the struggles of business men for control of trade or for squeezing out competitors, in contests between capital and labor, in religious factions, in collegiate rivalry, and in many of the seemingly commonplace struggles of everyday life.
— from News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer

I say, Jasper, here’s a young sap-engro that can read, and is more fly than yourself.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

They are used as bait for the lake herring, which I believe is identical with the cisco, an excellent fish closely resembling, and in my opinion equal, if not superior to the white fish.
— from Superior Fishing Or, the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

"It used to appear to me," writes Count Tolstoi, in a significant passage, "it used to appear to me that the small number of cultivated, rich and idle men, of whom I was one, composed the whole of humanity, and that the millions and millions of other men who had lived and are still living were not in reality men at all."
— from The Altruist in Politics by Benjamin N. (Benjamin Nathan) Cardozo

To it, and the seven that continually revolve around it, mystical meanings are attached, which you will learn hereafter, if you should be permitted to advance, when you are made acquainted with the philosophical doctrines of the Hebrews.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

[Pg 207] "Far be it from me," continued the colonel, "residing as I may say in a rather open and somewhat exposed domicile—a glass house in fact—to throw stones at Elijah Westlake Bemis,—far be it."
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

And so, in order to mitigate our lot as brutes, we have discovered and made everything, beginning with houses, then exquisite food, sauces, sweetmeats, pastry, drink, stuffs, clothes, ornaments, beds, mattresses, carriages, railways and innumerable machines, besides arts and sciences, writing and poetry.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 06 by Guy de Maupassant

It can run after its mother, use its eyes, pick up food, and answer the call of the old hen; and it does all this without instruction.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 by Various