Hence, even if we are considering merely the good of one human being taken alone, excluding from our view all effects of his conduct on others, still the reluctance of Common Sense to regard pleasure as the sole thing ultimately desirable may be justified by the consideration that human beings tend to be less happy if they are exclusively occupied with the desire of personal happiness.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

What would parents think of a captain who would leave his son in charge of a ship without giving him any instructions or chart showing the rocks, reefs, and shoals?
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

And therefore it is of the Law of Nature, "That they that are at controversie, submit their Right to the judgement of an Arbitrator.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

To say that Mr. Washington has won the gratitude of all thoughtful Southern white men, is to say that he has worked with the highest practical wisdom at a large constructive task; for no plan for the up-building of the freedman could succeed that ran counter to Southern opinion.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

The club cook and the steward listened to the count’s orders with pleased faces, for they knew that under no other management could they so easily extract a good profit for themselves from a dinner costing several thousand rubles.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

From this position a shrubbery hid the greater portion of Putney, but we could see the river below, a bubbly mass of red weed, and the low parts of Lambeth flooded and red.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There be monuments in this church,—of Reginald Coleman, son to Robert Coleman, buried there 1483: this said Robert Coleman may be supposed the first builder or owner of Coleman street, and that St. Stephen’s church, then built in Coleman street, was but
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

On the south side of the cloister-court stood the refectory, a long room in which the monks took their meals; and on the west was a range of buildings the use of which differed in various monasteries, in some for cellars and larders, in others for dormitories.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

He had been foresighted enough to mark the very spot, only a scratch of stone on stone, but we could see to read in that light.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And they did in fact at that time create a very great and mighty movement; uniting with the ever-flowing stream in stirring up and violently shaking the courses of the soul, they completely stopped the revolution of the same by their opposing current, and hindered it from predominating and advancing; and they so disturbed the nature of the other or diverse, that the three double intervals (i.e. between 1, 2, 4, 8), and the three triple intervals (i.e. between 1, 3, 9, 27), together with the mean terms and connecting links which are expressed by the ratios of 3:2, and 4:3, and of 9:8—these, although they cannot be wholly undone except by him who united them, were twisted by them in all sorts of ways, and the circles were broken and disordered in every possible manner, so that when they moved they were tumbling to pieces, and moved irrationally, at one time in a reverse direction, and then again obliquely, and then upside down, as you might imagine a person who is upside down and has his head leaning upon the ground and his feet up against something in the air; and when he is in such a position, both he and the spectator fancy that the right of either is his left, and the left right.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Stories from the old French and English chronicles showing the romantic glamour surrounding the great Charlemagne and his crusading knights.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

"The poor horses," he proceeded, "that are continually tumbling down on the wood pavement, cannot send their representatives, but I will represent them here whenever I have the opportunity"—(a horse laugh, as if from the orator's constituents, was excited by this sally.)
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

I heard through all the voices of Jerusalem—I should have heard through all the thunders of heaven—the calm, low voice, ‘Tarry thou till I come!’” Such the retribution; now the effect.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

Thomas Wright has clearly shown that Roman monumental inscriptions not infrequently contain warnings against neglect of, or disrespect to, the tombs of the departed.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

There were lofty heights on each side of us, but not so lofty as to have won a distinctive name; and adown their sides we could see the rocky pathways of cascades, which, at this season, are either quite dry, or mere trickles of a rill.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Instead of joining in the usual childish games, Newton preferred to play with his machines, Darwin with his collections, Shelley to read, Stevenson to make clay engines, and Edison to mix his chemicals.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

And when the wind blows north, the London smoke [Pg 149] Comes down upon us, and the grey crows croak, For the great city seems to reach about With its dark arms, and grip them by the throat.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida

She had not seen Cristoval since the removal of the barrier between them, but in her happiness and implicit faith in her prayers for his safety, she waited with patience for what now seemed assured.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson