There, indeed, Bertie had often two, or even three, hours' trying work, copying out prospectuses and share lists, reading aloud a strange jargon he did not half understand about stocks, consols, and dividends, adding up prodigious sums of money, subtracting other sums from them, and, when the result did not quite satisfy Mr. Gregory, having to consign them all to the waste-paper basket, and begin over again.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

On reviewing the results of my labours in Dresden—where I had now been nearly seven years—I could not help feeling humiliated when I considered the powerful and energetic impetus I knew I had given in many directions to the court theatre, and I found myself obliged to confess that, were I now to leave Dresden, not, the smallest trace of my influence would remain behind.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

At most of our American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have the laudable custom of inviting once or twice a year some maturer scholar to address them, the occasion often being made a public one.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

And we have before agreed that good men are those who are able to control themselves, and bad men are those who are not.
— from Laws by Plato

sī quod est admissum facinus, īdem dēcernunt , 6, 13, 5, if a crime has been committed, they also act as judges .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

As he was thus engaged, with his purse displayed, it chanced that a Sicilian damsel, who was very handsome, but disposed for a small matter to do any man's pleasure, passed near him, without his seeing her, and catching sight of the purse, said straightway in herself, 'Who would fare better than I, if yonder money were mine!' And passed on.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Such was the end of these men, thoroughly deserved in every way, and especially for their outrageous conduct to Aratus.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Haply there lay a mound hard at hand, crowned with cornel thickets and bristling dense with shafts of myrtle.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The return to Kant in our century means a return to the eighteenth century, people desire to create themselves a right to the old ideas and to the old exaltation—hence a theory of knowledge which "describes limits," that is to say, which admits of the option of fixing a Beyond to the domain of reason.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At length a message came concerning one of her own relatives, of whom she was sure that I could have no knowledge whatever, and she was convinced that at all events that message could not have originated with me.
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason

While one considers them as useful and rational companions, one cannot forget that they are also objects of our pleasures; nor can they ever forget it.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

A chair was drawn up at the marble center table, and the boy was invited to be seated.
— from Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921 Stories of boys that make money by Various

Mother and child taken, and the husband... left desolate... desolate for life!”
— from Afterwards, and Other Stories by Ian Maclaren

Till they've cut a canal to admit five-men boats!
— from The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood by Various

He had therefore no more to fear from them—at least for the present; and he accordingly let draw his fore sheet and, getting way on the catamaran, tacked and bore away for the mouth of the entrance channel, leaving his enemies to paddle before the wind and sea, and find their way back home again if they could.
— from Dick Leslie's Luck: A Story of Shipwreck and Adventure by Harry Collingwood

But so inadequate are words to the consoling of such griefs, it were almost cruel to attempt to syllable one's sympathies.
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still

The glory of Deventer perished with this great teacher, who to the last maintained the ancient traditions of the school by his maxim, that learning without piety was rather a curse than a blessing.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay