When an army is marching at a distance from its depots, in an exhausted country, it may be obliged to retire in order to get nearer its supplies.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

In other words, the external idea of the aim leads to a separation of means from end, while an end which grows up within an activity as plan for its direction is always both ends and means, the distinction being only one of convenience.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The fact is, darling, I am terribly worried.'
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

For it do I ask and seek, and have sought, but have not found it.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Transliterations of Greek text are given similarly ὥς . LONGINUS ON THE SUBLIME TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY H. L. HAVELL, B.A. FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1890 All rights reserved TO S.H. BUTCHER, Esq. , LL.D. PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH FORMERLY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE AND OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD THIS ATTEMPT TO PRESENT THE GREAT THOUGHTS OF LONGINUS IN AN ENGLISH FORM IS DEDICATED IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE KIND SUPPORT BUT FOR WHICH IT MIGHT NEVER HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT AND OF THE BENEFITS OF THAT INSTRUCTION TO WHICH IT LARGELY OWES WHATEVER OF SCHOLARLY QUALITY
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Granted that man does nothing but seek that mathematical certainty, he traverses oceans, sacrifices his life in the quest, but to succeed, really to find it, dreads, I assure you.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Soon as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen by the fireside, wishing her a merry new yeare, observing that I believe I was the first proper wisher of it this year, for I did it as soon as ever the clock struck one.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

However, Malichus, when he was suspected of poisoning Antipater, and when the multitude was angry with him for it, denied it, and made the people believe he was not guilty.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

If you have to acknowledge a decrease in your love, be brave enough to do so frankly, and do not leave to me the frightful task of guessing it; but if you care for me as much as ever, say it again and again, for I doubt it, alas, and, in love, doubt is more painful a thousand times than the most heartbreaking certainty.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Their fame is diffused in a very wide circle—that of some as far as Islington, and some yet farther still; while mine, I sincerely believe, has hardly travelled beyond the sound of Bow Bell; and, while the works of others fly [41] like unpinioned swans, I find my own move as heavily as a new-plucked goose.
— from Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black

It was necessary that the candidate for admission among the knights of the Temple should already be a knight; for as knighthood was a secular honour, the order would have regarded it as derogating from its dignity if any of its members were to receive it.
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

They had employed exactly the same policy against Carthage; they allowed the victim to be set upon by the Roman hounds and forbade its defending itself against them.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

'I was carrying it in my hand when I went down the ladder after the ball of wool, and when I fell I dropped it, and I found it afterwards.
— from Nurse Heatherdale's Story by Mrs. Molesworth

Soon as the spell was broken, and his soul Delivered from its darkness, in a moment, Thou didst regain thine empire o'er his heart.
— from Sakoontala; Or, The Lost Ring: An Indian Drama by Kalidasa

"Certainly; and in that case you will have to go too, for I doubt if anything could induce Fan to leave her mother."
— from Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends. by Martha Finley

Frammento inedito di, intorno at Viaggiatori Veneziani ; accompanied by Remarks on Bürck's German edition of Marco Polo, by TOMMASO GAR (late Director of the Venice Archives).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

But observe!—Its moral and political system, in which that slavery was so significant a factor, its discipline, its aesthetic and other scruples, its peculiar moral ęthos,+ having long before our Platonic student comes thither attained its original and proper ends, survived,—there is the point!
— from Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater

I would call attention only to the main points at which it assailed the old order, and to the fundamental ideas directing its advance.
— from Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse