“Without confiding to them the secret which I am not willing to know?” “We are sworn, once for all, to implicit confidence and devotedness against all proof.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The truth is that men alter their demeanor and sentiments just as fast as their interest changes; and their resign in this respect is a bill drawn for short payment that the man must be still more short-sighted who accepts the bill without protesting it.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

The bow, on the other hand, stands for all that is clever and fine in woodcraft; so, no guns or fire-arms of any kind are allowed in our boy scout camp.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

For, though the imperfection that we find in all the actual conditions of human existence—we may even say in the universe at large as judged from a human point of view—is ultimately found even in Morality itself, in so far as this is contemplated as Positive; still, practically, we are much less concerned with correcting and improving than we are with realising and enforcing it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

So to boat, and young Poole took us on board the Charity and gave us wine there, with which I had full enough, and so to our wherry again, and there fell asleep till I came almost to the Tower, and there the Captain and I parted, and I home and with wine enough in my head, went to bed. 14th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The rest of the souls are also longing after the upper world and they all follow, but not being strong enough they are carried round below the surface, plunging, treading on one another, each striving to be first; and there is confusion and perspiration and the extremity of effort; and many of them are lamed or have their wings broken through the ill-driving of the charioteers; and all of them after a fruitless toil, not having attained to the mysteries of true being, go away, and feed upon opinion.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

It is true that the theory of Smith can now be shown one-sided; it is no longer adequate for the facts actually known; but for all that, it contains an ingenious theory and has exercised a most fertile influence upon the science of religions.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Say, scoffer with a viper’s tongue, what think you has won this kingdom and cut off this giant’s head and made you a marquis (for all this I count as already accomplished and decided), but the might of Dulcinea, employing my arm as the instrument of her achievements?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He was followed by the French and the Italian comedians, and by the actors and actresses of the opera.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Say, scoffer with a viper's tongue, what think you has won this kingdom and cut off this giant's head and made you a marquis (for all this I count as already accomplished and decided), but the might of Dulcinea, employing my arm as the instrument of her achievements?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If the enemy's attack is successful, cavalry must then advance on their flanks and take its chance, and if necessary sacrifice itself to give its own infantry time to rally.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various

An attempt may be made to extract from all these immediate certainties a residual element which is said to be common to all of them.
— from Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

Located on a bluff some fifteen feet above tidewater, it commands a fine view of the surrounding country and of the entire bay.
— from Florida: Past and present together with notes from Sunland, on the Manatee River, Gulf Coast of South Florida: its climate, soil, and productions by Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis) Upham

As far as that is concerned, all the money will have to come out of the bank if poor Eva is to be kept where she is.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

He was admitted to the Bar in 1815, and practiced for a time in Canaan and Milburn (now Skowhegan), Maine.
— from Early American Plays, 1714-1830 A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems Written by Authors Born in or Residing in North America Previous to 1830 by Oscar Wegelin

A band of Mississaugas, learning the fact, approached the island cautiously at night, took away their boats so they could not escape, and then suddenly, with superior numbers, fell upon the Mohawks, and killed and scalped them all.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

It even went so far as to imprison Conyngham and his crew; but this was only a make-believe, for they were shortly afterward released.
— from The Boys of 1812 and Other Naval Heroes by James Russell Soley

There is no greater figure, no more familiar face in our literature than 'the old man eloquent'; and as the inseparable companion 'held in my heart of hearts, whose fidelity and tenderness I consider as a great part of the comforts which are yet left to me,' rises the figure of his biographer, the Bozzy no more of countless follies and fatuities, but Boswell, the prince of biographers, the inheritor of unfulfilled renown, now become, like his hero himself, an ancient.
— from James Boswell by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask

Why, say——" What the old tar wanted to say, or wanted them to say, will never be known, for at that instant came a loud cry from the bow.
— from The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle; or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht by Edward Stratemeyer

Monsieur and Mademoiselle de Clericy were coming slowly towards me, and more than one looked at the fair young girl with a franker admiration than I cared about, while she was happily unconscious of it.
— from Dross by Henry Seton Merriman