Pr. Die eigentliche Religion bleibt ein Inneres, ja Individuelles, denn sie hat ganz allein mit dem Gewissen zu thun; dieses soll erregt, soll beschwichtigt werden —Religion, properly so called, is ever an inward, nay, an individual thing, for it has to do with nothing but the conscience, which has now to be stirred up, now to be soothed.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

That administration is necessarily composed of a council of merchants, a profession no doubt extremely respectable, but which in no country in the world carries along with it that sort of authority which naturally overawes the people, and without force commands their willing obedience.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

So that while Kant insisted on the point, which hardly needed pressing, that it is mind that discovers empirical reality by making inferences from the data of sense, he admitted at the same time that such use of understanding is legitimate and even necessary, and that the idea of nature so framed his empirical truth.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The necessary assumption of a future. Such a disembodied existence, removed by its nature from the sphere of empirical evidence, might nevertheless be actual, and grounds of a moral or metaphysical type might be sought for postulating its reality.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Fourthly, it is confessedly unjust to break faith with any one: to violate an engagement, either express or implied, or disappoint expectations raised by our own conduct, at least if we have raised those expectations knowingly and voluntarily.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

[18] puede circular, fuera del Brasil, desde el río Bravo a Magallanes en la página impresa, en la cátedra, en el discurso y la conferencia.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They were divers, easily recognized by their cry, which much resembles the braying of a donkey.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

None remained behind but old men, squaws, and pappooses, not to forget the Indian dogs, ever ready by their snarl to recall their unwelcome existence to your mind.
— from Holidays at the Grange; or, A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside by Emily Mayer Higgins

Yet he feared her; the proud, noble face, the grand, dark eyes rose before him, and seemed to rebuke him for his presumptuous hope.
— from Love Works Wonders: A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame

Bayle himself considered these objects as those which were denominated " entia rationis, " beings of reason; they are, however, in fact, only material things considered in their masses, their superficies, their simple lengths and breadths, and the extremities of these simple lengths and breadths.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

The French Service de la cavalerie en campagne , 1909, at page 190, thus lays down the rôle of the commanding officer: “To direct his officers towards a common doctrine, that of resolves which are determined, even rash, but well considered; to develop in them initiative and personality, and to make them not merely carriers-out of orders, but leaders who know how to reflect, decide, and take responsibility on themselves.”
— from Our Cavalry by Michael Frederic Rimington

One of those “border ruffians” of Southern descent, ever ready by the stake of the philanthropist, or the martyr—such as have been late typified in the military murderers of Jamaica, who have disgraced the English name to the limits of all time.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

People may accuse me of disregarding established rules; but my answer is, that I make my own rules.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

[549] citizens, the Archdeacon Don José Cienfuegos, envoy to Rome, with instructions to try to establish direct ecclesiastical relations between the Holy See and Santiago, the capital of his country.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The diet energetically remonstrated, but in vain.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel