In the first place, are they not free; and is not the city full of freedom and frankness—a man may say and do what he likes?
— from The Republic by Plato

Though the scene of this transaction was remote from any inhabited neighbourhood, the church was surrounded by a crowd of people, who, with uncommon demonstration of surprise and admiration, petitioned Heaven to bless so fair a couple.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries.
— 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.

‘And when you write,’ said I, ‘will you have the goodness to ask her if I may be permitted to enlighten my mother and sister on her real history and circumstance, just so far as is necessary to make the neighbourhood sensible of the shameful injustice they have done her? I want no tender messages, but just ask her that, and tell her it is the greatest favour she could do me; and tell her—no, nothing more.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

For as in naturall things, men of judgement require naturall signes, and arguments; so in supernaturall things, they require signes supernaturall, (which are Miracles,) before they consent inwardly, and from their hearts.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

O, here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad!
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

At that time there seems to have been an important movement among the Jews of Frankfort and its neighbourhood towards Christianity, in which he was to some extent instrumental, and the result was that in three years ninety Jews embraced Christianity.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

There where you see the American flag flying, assemble in numbers; they are our redeemers!
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In the case reviewed, the woman has gone through fire, and is none the worse for her experiences: worth ten times what she was, to an honest man, if men could be got to see it.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

The lesson of the West had been to endure, not to shirk—to face an issue, not to hide.
— from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I will state as to the letter of Mr. Wilcox, to which I referred yesterday in connection with the suggestion from Mr. Malcomson as to the need of including lithographs in the specification of subject-matter, that the passage which I should have read if I had had the letter here (it was with the stenographer) was this: I congratulate you that the bill has taken this definite form and is now to be given a preliminary hearing, so that it will be in shape to be urged for passage next winter.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

Paine never founded an inquisition; never tortured a human being; never hoped that anybody's tongue would be paralyzed, and was always opposed to private chaplains.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

The legs and jaws of the lobster may not merely be regarded as modifications of a common type,—in fact and in nature they are so,—the leg and the jaw of the young animal being, at first, indistinguishable.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

It descended to Cooper from his mother, Elizabeth Fenimore, and is now treasured as a family heirloom by his grandson, Page 4 James Fenimore Cooper of Albany, New York.
— from James Fenimore Cooper by Mary Elizabeth Phillips

“We have, indeed, often thought that angling alone offers to man the degree of half business, half idleness, which the fair sex find in their needle-work or knitting, which, employing the hands, leaves the mind at liberty, and occupying the attention, so far as is necessary to remove the painful sense of a vacuity, yet yields room for contemplation, whether upon things heavenly or earthly, cheerful or melancholy.”
— from Haw-Ho-Noo; Or, Records of a Tourist by Charles Lanman

Here the men of the faithless Latin city could look out to their friends beyond the river, 84 over the mouth of the small but famous stream of Cremera, over the hills on either side, the Fabian outpost, the future home of Livia, far away, if not to Veii itself, yet to points further off than Veii.
— from Studies of Travel: Italy by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

In June, 1652, another attempt was made to reduce it to one-fourth, but this seems to have been a failure and in November the edict was suspended.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea