And even if these difficulties were overcome, we should still be only at the commencement of the perplexities in which the practical determination of Justice on self-evident principles is involved.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

M. Aemillus Lepidus , Consul 78 B.C. , a disappointed Optimate, jealous of Sulla’s power, but without Sulla’s ability.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

The 'scientific proof' that you are right may not be clear before the day of judgment (or some stage of being which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Our Toast Not to the Future, nor to the Past; No drink of Joy or Sorrow; We drink alone to what will last; Memories on the Morrow.
— from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords

Now, I am marking a document which purports to be a report of an interview with you by FBI Agent Jack Peden, as follows: “Dallas, Texas, April 1, 1964, Exhibit 5131, deposition of John O. Servance,” and I am signing my name on this document which is a one-page document, and so that the record may show that we are both speaking about the same document would you place your name below mine on that document, sir?
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Such was my happy frame that I imagined myself in the company of the holy angels, who, I believed, were made more happy on my account, and doubtless those ministering spirits did feel new degrees of joy on seeing so vile a sinner, so wretched a prodigal, come home to the arms of his heavenly Father.
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

The thoughtfulness and depth of many of Mr. Nelson’s remarks upon the events of the life and death of Jesus often struck me.
— from William Nelson: A Memoir by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

We have seen the visions of patriarchal days, the promises and blessings of the ancient dispensation, the memorable and terrific descent of Jehovah on Sinai, the prefigurations of the Mosaic economy, the personal glories, the incarnate love, the agonizing death, the triumphant ascension of the Son of God: we enjoy means of instruction which no other age did or could possess.
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

The main lines of his doctrine are a further development of Judaism, only simpler and coarser; speaking generally, it stands much nearer to the religion of the Old Testament than the Christianity of the Church does.
— from Sketches from Eastern History by Theodor Nöldeke

Here is what is said of them by the Archbishop of Bourges, he of the house of Beaune, as great a scholar and as worthy a prelate as there is in Christendom (although there are some who say that he was a trifle unsteady in belief, and of little worth in the scales of M. Saint-Michel, who weighs good Christians for the day of judgment, or so 'tis said).
— from Memoirs and Historical Chronicles of the Courts of Europe Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of France, Wife of Henri IV; of Madame de Pompadour of the Court of Louis XV; and of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France, Wife of Henri II by Mme. Du Hausset

Of eighteen hundred and thirty-three millions spent in 1799, the royal court alone had used one hundred and five, the department of war nine hundred and thirty-five, finance four hundred and twenty-eight, foreign affairs forty-six, and the department of justice only seven!
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

"What was the name of the people?" "Dallyhorse, or Jellycorse, or something of the sort.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore