If the feeling of relations exists in us,... it is necessarily the most varied and the most fertile of all human feelings: 1°, the most varied, because, relations being more numerous than beings, the feelings of relation must be in the same proportion more numerous than the sensations whose presence gives rise to their formation; 2°, the most fertile, for the relative ideas of which the feeling-of-relati
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

All belief of matter of fact or real existence is derived merely from some object, present to the memory or senses, and a customary conjunction between that and some other object.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Truth and materiality, mechanism and ideal interests, are collateral projections from one rolling experience, which shows up one aspect or the other as it develops various functions and dominates itself to various ends.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

One day, as I was in the Alcana of Toledo, a boy came up to sell some pamphlets and old papers to a silk mercer, and, as I am fond of reading even the very scraps of paper in the streets, led by this natural bent of mine I took up one of the pamphlets the boy had for sale, and saw that it was in characters which I recognised as Arabic, and as I was unable to read them though I could recognise them, I looked about to see if there were any Spanish-speaking Morisco at hand to read them for me; nor was there any great difficulty in finding such an interpreter, for even had I sought one for an older and better language I should have found him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It is a very honorable circumstance for the morals of the primitive Christians, that even their faults, or rather errors, were derived from an excess of virtue.
— 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

Not far off rose Ellora, with its graceful pagodas, and the famous Aurungabad, capital of the ferocious Aureng-Zeb, now the chief town of one of the detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

From the ugly gashes which misfortunes and sorrows make in our hearts, perennial fountains of rich experience and new joys often spring.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The egoism of human nature is so strongly antagonistic to any such sympathy, that true friendship belongs to that class of things—the sea-serpent, for instance,—with regard to which no one knows whether they are fabulous or really exist somewhere or other.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Examine it in all lights, and see if you can find that matter of fact, or real existence, which you call vice.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The saints, by the fruits of regeneration, even in t
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

In the presence of some officer, whose enthusiasm clings like ivy round the past glories of the “Onety-oneth,” they may, for obvious reasons, express themselves differently; but, when alone, they do as everybody else does, outside a small and decreasing group of men who live, as archæologists do, in a dead past, and use the local name, which to them has a more distinct meaning.
— from The Story of the British Army by Charles Cooper King

FEATS OF RAILWAY ENGINEERING.
— from Ocean Steamships A popular account of their construction, development, management and appliances by A. E. (Albert Edward) Seaton

Species : an aggregation of individuals alike in appearance and structure, mating freely and producing young that themselves mate freely and bear fertile offspring resembling each other and their parents: a species includes all its varieties and races.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith

For centuries Spain had been the centre of civilization, the seat of arts and sciences, of learning, and every form of refined enlightenment.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

He stood up and rubbed his chin thoughtfully, his brows drawn into a heavy frown of reflection, ending by starting off at a fast pace that carried him to the edge of the little town.
— from Bulldog Carney by William Alexander Fraser

[26] For a clear account of the effects of hemp preparations, calculated to produce a feeling of religious ecstasy, the reader should consult Dr. Hale White's Text-Book of Pharmacology , 1901, pp.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen