Now the reason why those of the Egyptians whom I have mentioned do not sacrifice goats, female or male, is this:—the Mendesians count Pan to be one of the eight gods (now these eight gods they say came into being before the twelve gods), and the painters and image-makers represent in painting and in sculpture the figure of Pan, just as the Hellenes do, with goat's face and legs, not supposing him to be really like this but to resemble the other gods; the cause however why they represent him in this form I prefer not to say.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

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— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Seneca closed the vast circle of his knowledge by learning that a friend in power was a friend lost--a fact very much worth insisting upon--while the gray-headed moth that had fluttered through many moth-administrations and had singed his wings more or less in them all, though he now slept nine months out of the twelve, acquired an instinct of self-preservation that kept him to the north side of La Fayette Square, and, after a sufficient habitude of Presidents and Senators, deterred him from hovering between them.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
— 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.

If in making a daily round of the village, certain small incidents, characteristic forms of taking food, of conversing, of doing work (see for instance Plate III ) are found occurring over and over again, they should be noted down at once.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The first impulse to look for it proceeds from practical needs: where ends must be attained, or produce a result.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Further, its present state cannot be improved, and while there is life it is certain of the unceasing sufferings and death of the individual.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Freemasonry, its Pretensions Exposed ... by a Master Mason, p. 275 (New York. 1828).
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

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— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The greater part of the nobles, who dissipated their fortunes in profuse luxury, found themselves poor in the midst of wealth, and idle in a constant round of dissipation.
— 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

The living engine, like all others, must be well stoked if it is to do its work; and the horse, if it is to make good its wear and tear, and to exert the enormous amount of force required for its propulsion, must be well and rapidly fed.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Here the floating jelly-fish, called from its phosphorescence the glow-worm of the sea, is observed in great variety, sheltering little colonies of young fishes, which rush forth for a moment to capture some passing mite, and as quickly return again to their cover.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

"Who, all?" "All of them back there where I come from, in Paris, friends and relations; the people on the other side of the grave, the live ones.—As for us, we are as good as dead."
— from Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland

Having spent the day in completing my affairs (about to embark for America), and taking leave of my dear friends, I preached in the evening to near 20,000 at Kennington Common.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The sense of duty is present in each detail of life; the obligatory "must" which binds the will to the course which right principle has marked out for it produces a fibre like the fibre of the oak.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

If you have found it, prithee point it out to me.’
— from The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Grain is thrown against his head, and his face is painted half white, half black.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“If we put this one fellow in prison for a few weeks,” I said, “the benefit is not very great.
— from Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton

For instance, poor old Mrs. Beck, whose son is buried in yonder corner (it is too dark now to see the stone), sent me these lines for her son's grave-stone:— 'Here lies John Beck, aged 19 years, Father and mother, wipe away your tears.'
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

Several French officers and engineers served in his forces, in pursuance of the unworthy policy of Louis XIV., whose jealousy of the House of Hapsburg rejected no means, however disgraceful, and no ally, however discreditable; and overlooked all the evil consequences to Christendom of the success of the schemes he thus supported.
— from The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks by Karl August Schimmer