In this faculty of repeating and joining together its ideas, the mind has great power in varying and multiplying the objects of its thoughts, infinitely beyond what sensation or reflection furnished it with: but all this still confined to those simple ideas which it received from those two sources, and which are the ultimate materials of all its compositions.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

It is now fitting that I should explain, as briefly and as clearly as I can, what, in the second book of this work, I promised to prove, according to the definitions which Cicero, in his books on the Commonwealth, puts into the mouth of Scipio, arguing that the Roman State was never a commonwealth; for he briefly defines a commonwealth as a state of the people; the people as an assembly of the multitude, united by a common feeling of right, and a community of interests.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The fortunes of Romeo and Juliet rise and culminate in their marriage ( ii. vi.), and then begin to decline before the opposition of their houses, which, aided by accidents, produces a catastrophe, but is thereupon converted into a remorseful reconciliation.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

That Alexander should have cut off his hair in honour of the dead man, I do not think improbable, both for other reasons and especially from a desire to imitate Achilles, whom from his boyhood he had an ambition to rival.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

They were called the fools of Rameru , and it was said that the greatest fool led the band.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Ay! fallen, though the nations hail thee Queen Because rich gold in every town is seen, And on thy sapphire-lake in tossing pride Of wind-filled vans thy myriad galleys ride Beneath one flag of red and white and green.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

[ 10 ] A blundering bat once stuck her head Into a wakeful weasel's bed; Whereat the mistress of the house, A deadly foe of rats and mice, Was making ready in a trice To eat the stranger as a mouse.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

“‘Who, then, has counselled you to take this step, one for which the court is deeply indebted to you, and which is perfectly natural, considering your birth and your misfortunes?’—‘Sir,’ replied Haydée, ‘I have been led to take this step from a feeling of respect and grief.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Both were meanly dressed in clothes full of rents and patches.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Still, to be fair, he must admit that no real danger to freedom of research and progress of science results from submission to faith, as shown above.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

"Well, you're fond of reading, aren't you?"
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

I also had the faculty of remembering any tune I once heard, and would whistle it correctly ever after—even one of Uncle Ibbetson's waltzes!
— from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

His recollections of our scenery were not such as were in former times associated with the Cornish shore; for three years afterward he returned to the place of his disaster accompanied by his uncle, sister, and affianced wife, and he had brought them that, in his own joyous words, “they might see the very spot of his great deliverance:” and there, one summer day, they stood, a group of happy faces, gazing with wonder and gratitude on our rugged [63] cliffs, that were then clad in that gorgeous vesture of purple and gold which the heather and gorse wind and weave along the heights; and the soft blue wave lapping the sand in gentle cadence, as though the sea had never wreaked an impulse of ferocity, or rent a helpless prey.
— from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by Robert Stephen Hawker

This boldness is a fruit of righteousness, and is always found in those who are full of the Holy Ghost.
— from When the Holy Ghost is Come by Samuel Logan Brengle

[76] With the possibility of apprehension reduced to a minimum in the confusion at Halifax, with the deterrent forces of respectability and law practically unknown, men appeared for what they were as the following statement only too well discloses: Few folk thought that Halifax harbored any would-be ghouls or vultures.
— from Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince

The fever of research at last had led me into my first definite crime against society—if so it can be called.
— from The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer

In company he drank freely of rum and brandy, which he called naked truth ; and retained his activity to the time of his death.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

There is a feminine delicacy in whatever alludes to the female character, not merely courtly, but imbued with that sensibility which St. Palaye has remarkably described as “full of refinement and fanaticism.”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

But that was after he had made a great effort, and driven away the faces of Rita and Ni-ha-be.
— from The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story by William O. Stoddard