The former (legality) is possible even if inclinations have been the determining principles of the will; but the latter (morality), moral worth, can be placed only in this, that the action is done from duty, that is, simply for the sake of the law.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

So endeth our first lesson in political economy.
— from The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo

I shall translate what I then wrote in Spanish, which was my adopted and familiar language, in preference even to French, which I had scarcely spoken during twenty years:— “How have I strength to take this pen?
— from Adventures in the Philippine Islands by Paul P. de La Gironière

The first line is plain enough; but I do not at all know the meaning of Pierian, which is in the second.
— from Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Frances Bowyer Vaux

And yet from life I plucked each poison-flower!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

And a letter which she wrote to Mercy a fortnight later is perhaps even more worthy of attention, as supplying abundant proof, if proof were needed, of the good-will and good faith which were the leading principles of herself and the king in all their dealings with the Assembly.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

[927] The resistance to Radicalism became a movement of clerical fanaticism, led by the cry of "religion in danger"; Catholics using it to foment local insurrections; Protestants, ecclesiastically led, using it to make a municipal revolution by violence at Zurich on the occasion of the proposal to give Strauss a university chair in 1839.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Sometimes his father laughed in private, even when he found it necessary to show displeasure to the culprit.
— from Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Secondly, we must always try to produce things with the least possible labour; for labour is painful exertion, and we wish to undergo as little pain and trouble as we can.
— from Political economy by William Stanley Jevons

Usually the first layette is profusely embroidered, and, while it is beautiful to look at, the mother feels when she sees it outgrown so quickly that a lot of vital energy was wasted on garments that mattered so little as long as baby was comfortable.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

And Elsie was very happy; the soft eyes grew bright with happiness, and the little face lost its pensive expression, and became as round, rosy and merry as Enna's.
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley