They certainly are not easy to manage!
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Even the main proposition expounded throughout this section—that universal laws of nature can be distinctly cognised a priori —leads naturally to the proposition: that the highest legislation of nature must lie in ourselves, i.e., in our understanding, and that we must not seek the universal laws of nature in nature by means of experience, but conversely must seek nature, as to its universal conformity to law, in the conditions of the possibility of experience, which lie in our sensibility and in our understanding.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

They are always either the masters or servants and never the friends of anybody; the tyrant never tastes of true freedom or friendship.
— from The Republic by Plato

As if the evils were not thus great enough, the ministry took pains to efface the heroic traditions of the past which had escaped the general wreck.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

In the study of nations and men, we may observe the causes that render them hostile or friendly to each other, that tend to narrow or enlarge, to mollify or exasperate, the social character.
— 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

Old Ned Van Alstyne, seated next to her in a coat that made affliction dapper, twirled his white moustache to conceal the eager twitch of his lips; and Grace Stepney, red-nosed and smelling of crape, whispered emotionally to Mrs. Herbert Melson: "I couldn't BEAR to see the Niagara anywhere else!" A rustle of weeds and quick turning of heads hailed the opening of the door, and Lily Bart appeared, tall and noble in her black dress, with Gerty Farish at her side.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

“I don’t know if it is true that he is engaged to Miss Stuart,” replied Anne, with Spartan composure, “but it is certainly true that she is very lovely.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Never were surprise and concern so strongly marked:-yes, my dear Sir, he looked greatly concerned: and that, the remembrance of that, is the only consolation I feel for an evening the most painful of my life.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

When in excess, they may be rightly called expensive pleasures, in opposition to the useful ones.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He is going to arrange for us to go to one somewhere, he did not say where, but it will be accompanied by a grand dinner and will express the magnificence of the new rich as well as the taste of old Japan, to judge from the impressions he gave us.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

At night when I came home, not being able to get into my house, I went to her mother's in Whitechapel , expecting to meet with her there.
— from The Affecting Case of the Unfortunate Thomas Daniels Who Was Tried at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey, September, 1761, for the Supposed Murder of His Wife; by Casting Her out of a Chamber Window: and for Which He Was Sentenced to Die, but Received His Majesty's Most Gracious and Free Pardon. by Thomas Daniels

at tu, per studii communia foedera sacri, per non uile tibi nomen amicitiae (sic uincto Latiis Germanicus hoste catenis 45 materiam uestris adferat ingeniis, sic ualeant pueri, †uotum commune deorum†, quos laus formandos est tibi magna datos), 37 haec] hac C ||
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

[Marion de l'Orme, born at Chalons, in Champagne, was esteemed the most beautiful woman of her times.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

[12] However the probability is that this very refraining from direct attack made his efforts the more successful.
— from The Transformation of Early Christianity from an Eschatological to a Socialized Movement A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Lyford P. (Lyford Paterson) Edwards

Indeed, as Pythagoras or Plato said, that states would never be well governed, till philosophers were kings or kings were philosophers; so it may be said, that land will never be well cultivated, till proprietors shall be farmers or farmers shall be proprietors: their interests are opposite, and not to be reconciled by leases or conditions of obligation; one desires immediate, the other continued, profit: but the interest that a French proprietor has in his share of the produce, is not great enough to induce him to diminish his capital by deteriorating the land, which the tenant always will do if he can: even the matériel of the farm, no unimportant part of its value, is better cared for by the landlord than by a tenant.
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste

"Weather's enough to make anyone cross," said the boy quickly.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

He then helped him to mount, and the Arab was on the point of uttering a few words of gratitude, when he suddenly exclaimed, “The magic maiden!”
— from The Two Captains by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de

And we won't talk about it either—except to mention it in passing.
— from The Heart of Cherry McBain: A Novel by Douglas Durkin

We might have dwelt with pleasure upon the softness, flexibility, richness, and musical tone of that vehicle of thought which could represent with full effect the melancholy tenderness of Tibullus, [Footnote: Albius Tibullus was a poet of singular gentleness and amiability, who wrote verses of exquisite finish, gracefully telling the story of his worldly misfortunes and expressing the fluctuations that marked his indulgence in the tender passion, in which his experience was extensive and his record real.
— from The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman