Nothing, moreover, is more conducive to love and intimacy than compatibility of character in good men; for when two people have the same ideals and the same tastes, it is a natural consequence that each loves the other as himself; and the result is, as Pythagoras requires of ideal friendship, that several are united in one.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But we must have already emerged and gone seven hundred or eight hundred leagues; and if I had here an astrolabe to take the altitude of the pole, I could tell thee how many we have travelled, though either I know little, or we have already crossed or shall shortly cross the equinoctial line which parts the two opposite poles midway."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

With Baxter's Saints' Rest, Pilgrim's Progress , and the King James Bible , it often constituted the entire library of multitudes of Puritan homes; and as we read its noble words and breathe its gentle spirit, we cannot help wishing that our modern libraries were gathered together on the same thoughtful foundations.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

In the first morality it is the eagle which, looking down upon a browsing lamb, contends that “eating lamb is good.”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Bonaparte arrests them contrary to every law.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

The fellow (gentleman, as he styled himself) can hardly have been other than a spurious interloper; for, instead of seeking office from the king or the royal governor, or urging his hereditary claim to Eastern lands, he bethought himself of no better avenue to wealth than by cutting a shop-door through the side of his ancestral residence.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Joseph eagerly clung to every look and word and action which confirmed his sliding faith in his wife's sweet and simple character, and repelled—though a deeper instinct told him that a day would come when it must be admitted—the evidence of her coldness and selfishness.
— from Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

[Pg 102] CHAPTER THE EIGHTH LITTLE MRS.
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux

I saw the fences half consumed, their ends lost in the middle of the prairie, and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angels going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise.
— from Excursions by Henry David Thoreau

The scene was a busy one—the docks of Carthage were extensive, and the ships which were to convey the expedition lay in deep water by the quays, so that the troops could march on board.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Count Vassili had known the Empress personally, in fact was regularly and most exactly informed by numerous friends as to all that went on at the Russian Court, and with all manner of intimate details concerning the existence led by the Czar and by his Consort in their Palace of Tsarskoye Selo.
— from Confessions of the Czarina by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

They came to England like two fugitives who, after many and great trials, for affection's sake seek a new home and a new country.
— from Absalom's Hair by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

I wanted to connect you with these souvenirs, to make you see that one can thus enlarge life and the world, and have the right to surround you with my thought through a thousand things, as I would like to surround myself with yours.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

But the true revelation, the real truth, as it was already anticipated by the Greek philosophers, slowly accepted by Jews, [188] like Philo and the contemporaries of Jesus, taught by men like Clement and Origen in the ancient Greek Church, and, in fine, realised in the life of Jesus, and sealed by His death, is no absurdity: it is for every thinking Christian the eternal life, or the Kingdom of God on earth, which Jesus wished to establish, and in part did establish.
— from Thoughts on Life and Religion An Aftermath from the Writings of The Right Honourable Professor Max Müller by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller