That which gives us such an extraordinarily firm faith in causality, is not the rough habit of observing the sequence of processes, but our inability to interpret a phenomenon otherwise than as the result of design.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The disadvantages we lie under are evident; for falsehood is capable of an infinite variety of combinations; but the truth has only one manner of being.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was arranged on the ching , or ‘well’ system—eight private squares round a ninth public square cultivated by the eight farmer families in common for the benefit of the State.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Temesa was a town of the Brutii, on the coast of Etruria, famous for its copper mines.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Near our residence was a florist's establishment, famous for its collection of orchids, which in Japan are cultivated more for their foliage than for their flowers; this taste is conditioned by the fact that in Loochoo, China and Japan there are very few species bearing conspicuous or fine blossoms, and the amateur makes the best of what is procurable.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Now my object will be to get away from my kind and excellent friend, for I cannot find another word so proper, but I must at the same time consult his wishes.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

It is not eternal a parte ante , having been made out of nothing by God; but it will continue to exist forever, for it cannot be more perfect than it is.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

He thought that the señor was veritably a speculator in guano, who, all the better-known deposits off the coast of Peru being either taken up or exhausted, was bent on exploiting fresh fields in Chile.
— from The Terms of Surrender by Louis Tracy

There are businesses in which, competition being less active, the excuse for falling into corrupt practices does not hold; and here, indeed, we find corrupt practices much less prevalent.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Opium is certainly deleterious to the moral fibre of a race, and in many cases it produces death and misery; but there are a certain number of cases where no obvious evil effects follow from its consumption—cases when as a rule a man is well-nourished, for it acts most deleteriously on a man's powers of digestion.
— from Changing China by Cecil, Florence Mary (Bootle-Wilbraham), Lady

It was five years before he secured enough funds for its construction, but it was [56] finally ready in 1905.
— from The Romance of Aircraft by Laurence Yard Smith

The records of this troop, known as the Dan Dreadnought Series , are donated to Camp Ellsworth for fuel in case the kindling wood runs short.
— from Tom Slade : Boy Scout of the Moving Pictures by Percy Keese Fitzhugh