When the uneasiness is either small in itself, or remote from us, it engages not the imagination, nor is able to convey an equal concern for the future and contingent good, as for the present and real evil Upon its acquiring greater force, we become so interested in the concerns of the person, as to be sensible both of his good and had fortune; and from that compleat sympathy there arises pity and benevolence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

And even now there is no certain assurance of our lives; even yet do the clouds terrify my mind.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

It is remarkable, that neither the ancient Egyptians, nor the Indians, nor the Chinese, encouraged foreign commerce, but seem all to have derived their great opulence from this inland navigation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Sine amicitia vitam esse nullam —There is no 35 life without friendship.
— 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.

Now necessity can be attributed to a connection, only in so far as it is known a priori, for experience would only enable us to know of such a connection that it exists, not that it necessarily exists.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

But he must return at once from the first town he visits, and then he will have only 22 towns to visit, and as 22 is an even number, there is no reason why he should not end on the white square
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He can affirm nothing that it denies, deny nothing that it affirms, and establish nothing that is not directly or indirectly founded upon principles taken from it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Even now there is no certain list of Strickland's paintings."
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Every composite substance in the world consists of simple parts; and there exists nothing that is not either itself simple, or composed of simple parts.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

3. Eph. i. 20-22, "And set him at his right hand in the celestials, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come, and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church."
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

He is a Spirit Being, ‘the express image of the Father's person ,’ ‘far above angels, principalities and powers, and every name that is named,’ and hence, far above perfect manhood.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

The abolition of many clerical sinecures, and the greatly increased activity of clerical duty imposed by contemporary opinion, have no doubt rendered the profession less desirable from this point of view; but even now there is no other profession outside the universities which lends itself so readily to a literary life, and a great proportion of the most eminent thinkers and writers in the Church of England are eminent in fields that have little or no connection with theology.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The bold monk and his party excited neither their interest nor their concern.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

Pathos not unmixed with dry humor tinges the eloquent appeal of good old King Heygler, ever the loyal friend of the whites, at this conference: I desire a stop may be put to the selling of strong Liquors by the White people to my people especially near the Indian nation.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

After the arrival in Portugal of these exchanged negroes, ten in number, and several more small parcels of captives, a company organized at Lagos under the direction of Prince Henry sent forth a fleet of six caravels in 1444 which promptly returned with 225 captives, the disposal of whom has been recounted at the beginning of this chapter.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Eat, Nazarene, there is no poison in thy food,—drink, there is no drug in thy cup.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

Here stranger or townsman, sauntering at his leisure amid these vast grim venerable ruins, may persuade himself that an Abbey of St. Edmundsbury did once exist; nay there is no doubt of it: see here the ancient massive Gateway, of architecture interesting to the eye of Dilettantism; and farther on, that other ancient Gateway, now about to tumble, unless Dilettantism, in these very months, can subscribe money to cramp it and prop it!
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

The service respecting our duty, and the service of supplication have merits of their own, but, except for the wanton omission of the Name which is above every name, there is nothing in them which does not bear a Christian impress.
— from Modern Substitutes for Christianity by Pearson M'Adam Muir