I hope we shall give our northern enemies that hailstorm of bullets which gives our dear country the dominion of the sea.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

For if there be any natural good, or natural evil, then it must be good to everyone, or evil to everyone; just as snow is cold to everyone.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

This was the gift of New England to the freed Negro: not alms, but a friend; not cash, but character.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

This applicability, the prerequisite of significant thought, is also its eventual test; and the gathering of new experiences, the consciousness of more and more facts crowding into the memory and demanding co-ordination, is at once the presentation to reason of her legitimate problem and a proof that she is already at work.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But in order that they may either reincarnate themselves, or periodically give off new emanations, they must have survived their first holders.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

When I flung the carving-knife at Bullingdon I was drunk, as everybody present can testify; but as for having any systematic scheme against the poor lad, I can declare solemnly that, beyond merely hating him (and one’s inclinations are not in one’s power), I am guilty of no evil towards him.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The conclusions of the Kinsey reports on men and on women seem much more authoritative to the ordinary man because they are presented with an ample garniture of numbers, even though Havelock Ellis's pioneer works in the psychology and behavior patterns of Western sex life may have been much more tangible and much more revolutionary in their time.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

55 A sharp contrast between the old politics and the new is shown by the unfortunate book prepared in the Department of State and now hastily, even guiltily, allowed to go out of print by the United States Government Printing Office because it showed that some Americans were guilty or naïve enough to try to love and trust the Soviet state within the same system as our own.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In some of the colonies, as in three of the governments of New England, those councils are not appointed by the king, but chosen by the representatives of the people.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

From the guessing of newspaper enigmas to the plotting of the policy of an empire there is no other process than this.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He gave out no explanation, then or afterwards.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Every one else had got out now excepting the girl with the big spectacles.
— from The Trufflers: A Story by Samuel Merwin

There was nothing going on, nothing even to look forward to: one formal dinner-party was the only thing to represent that large and cordial hospitality which she was glad to think had in her own time characterised the period when the Hall was open.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Pacing the picture galleries of Northern Europe, the country seats of English nobles, and the palaces of Spain, the same reflection is still forced upon us: how could Italy have done what she achieved within so short a space of time?
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

The distressing state of family life may also be gathered from the large numbers of public and secret prostitutes that are to be found in all the large cities, and the singing girls of nearly every town.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

That is my view, Nicias; the terrible things, as I should say, are the evils which are future; and the hopeful are the good or not evil things which are future.
— from Laches by Plato

And since God caused His Word to be preached and His will to be proclaimed to him, and Pharaoh nevertheless wilfully reared up straightway against all admonitions and warnings, God withdrew His hand from him and thus his heart became hardened and obdurate, and God executed His judgment upon him; for he was guilty of nothing else than hell-fire.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

The two rivers blended gracefully on nearly equal terms, and the doubled volume started down with reckless impetuosity.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh