“No education can teach a woman logic.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

A high degree of variability is obviously favourable, as freely giving the materials for selection to work on; not that mere individual differences are not amply sufficient, with extreme care, to allow of the accumulation of a large amount of modification in almost any desired direction.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Where a man’s emotions cease to accompany him in his investigations, he is not necessarily nearer the truth.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In his story, which we translate literally from the original, written in ancient French, the venerable traveller attributes the origin of this singular system of exercising power over the minds of persons to a prince who in reality did but keep up a tradition of his family; for the Alaodin herein mentioned is no other than a successor of the famous Hassan, son of Ali, who, in the middle of the eleventh century, took advantage of the wars which devastated Asia to create himself a kingdom, comprising the three provinces of Turkistan, Djebel, and Syria.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

In the English conventual cathedral establishments, as Canterbury, Norwich, Ely, &c., the archbishops or bishops held the abbot's place, the immediate governor of the monastery being called a prior.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

O, Romeo, that she were, O that she were An open et cetera, thou a pop'rin pear! Romeo, good night.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

But the Romans were disposed to revere, in the person of their master, that antique title which the emperors condescended to assume: the Barbarian himself seemed to contract a sacred obligation to respect the majesty of the republic; and the successors of Theodosius, by soliciting his friendship, tacitly forgave, and almost ratified, the usurpation of Gaul.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It is true that there is no Philippine state paper signed by anybody, either by the President of the United States, or the Governor-General of the Philippines, or any one else, certifying to a condition of “general and complete peace” between the certificate to that effect made by the Philippine Commission on September 25, 1902, above mentioned, which authorized commencing the census (and was justified by the facts), and the presidential promise of March 28, 1905, that if they would “be good” for two years more, they should have a legislature.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

A letter sent or read will do as much; multum allevor quum tuas literas lego , I am much eased, as [3449] Tully wrote to Pomponius Atticus, when I read thy letters, and as Julianus the Apostate once signified to Maximus the philosopher; as Alexander slept with Homer's works, so do I with thine epistles, tanquam Paeoniis medicamentis, easque assidue tanquam, recentes et novas iteramus; scribe ergo, et assidue scribe , or else come thyself; amicus ad amicum venies .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

§ Of the many efforts which were made at the end of the eighteenth century to apply steam power to the propulsion of ships a striking feature is their complete independence from each other and from the results of prior experience and research.
— from The Evolution of Naval Armament by Frederick Leslie Robertson

If for some of his manors the Saxon was the tenant of a church or of an abbey, the Norman often seized upon these with the rest, as if all were rightfully confiscated together and all held by an equally clear title, and the Church was not always able, even after long litigation, to establish its rights.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

The man’s face was strangely eager, considering that all he had been asked to do was to test the bay’s speed, and there was a hardness in his expression that fixed Crestwick’s attention; he wondered the cause of it.
— from The Long Portage by Harold Bindloss

In either case, their authority is greatly invalidated; and the more so, as the fourth book of Esdras, adopted by the Greek church, and generally deemed authentic, says expressly, that Esdras dictated the holy books during forty successive days and nights, to five scribes, who were continually writing.
— from Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff by Samuel W. (Samuel Ward) Francis

Some persons, understanding the term in this sense, have felt an aversion, which every liberal mind will share, to classing social pleasures, art, and religion under the head of play, and by that epithet condemning them, as a certain school seems to do, to gradual extinction as the race approaches maturity.
— from The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

In the early centuries, the Armenians acted the part of Horatius and “kept the bridge,” defending the gate of Europe against successive invasions of the uncivilized hordes of Asia.
— from The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia by A. K. Seklemian

Exports - commodities: textiles and apparel, tea and spices; diamonds, emeralds, rubies; coconut products, rubber manufactures, fish Exports - partners: US 31.1%, UK 12.2%, India 8.9%, Germany 4.3% (2005)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He proceeded with almost equal care to assist her mother "So I was," said the captain.
— from Salthaven by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

From Stockholm he went to Charles-town, and after a short stay there continued his journey to Copenhagen, the metropolis of Denmark; here he met with one Captain Thomas Giles, of Minehead in Somersetshire, who knew him, and was surprised to see him in that part of the world, and not only liberally relieved him himself, but recommended him to several English commanders there, and also to several inhabitants of the city.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown