Nunquam erit alienis gravis, qui suis se concinnat levem —He will never be disagreeable to others who makes himself agreeable to his own relations.
— 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.

For morality dogmas have this value only: The man who has become virtuous from knowledge of another kind, which is presently to be considered, possesses in them a scheme or formula according to which he accounts to his own reason, for the most part fictitiously, for his non-egoistical action, the nature of which it, i.e. , he himself, does not comprehend, and with which account he has accustomed it to be content.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

This seems to depend, chiefly, on the face and adjoining parts of the skin having been habitually exposed to the air, light, and alternations of temperature, by which the small arteries not only have acquired the habit of readily dilating and contracting, but appear to have become unusually developed in comparison with other parts of the surface.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

For though she knew she had been ruthlessly sacrificed to Bertha Dorset's determination to win back her husband, and though her own relation to Dorset had been that of the merest good-fellowship, yet she had been perfectly aware from the outset that her part in the affair was, as Carry Fisher brutally put it, to distract Dorset's attention from his wife.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Should they ever acquire houses or lands or money of their own, they will become householders and tradesmen instead of guardians, enemies and tyrants instead of helpers, and the hour of ruin, both to themselves and the rest of the State, will be at hand.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

As soon as she dared leave the table she hurried away to her own room; but the housemaids were busy in it, and she was obliged to come down again.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate[obs3], pelt; hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of; rock beset[U.S.], besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He had acquired the habit of reading a few pages in his Diogenes Laertius every night, before he went to bed.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And he led her away to her own room.
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

Such were the taboo restrictions that a well-regulated, household must set up at least six separate houses: a temple for the household gods, heiau ; an eating house for the men, hale mua , which was taboo to the women; and four houses especially for the women—the living house, hale noa , which the husband might enter; the eating house, hale aina ; the house of retirement at certain periods, which was taboo for the husband, hale pea ; and the kua , where she beat out tapa.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

She had a manner of looking—of looking up at him and to him, of relying on him as a great big wise man who could get poor little silly her out of a difficulty.
— from A Great Man: A Frolic by Arnold Bennett

General Washington had at this time made his headquarters at the house of Robert Murray.
— from The World's Greatest Military Spies and Secret Service Agents by George Barton

Take a Gallon of Ale, a Pint of Honey, and two Handfuls of Red Nettles, and take a penny-worth or two of Saffron, and boil it in the Ale, the Ale being first skimmed and then boil the Hony and Nettles therein all together and strain it well, and every Morning take a good Draught thereof, for the space of a fortnight.
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke

Then came those months away from his own country and his own surroundings—months in which he acquired the habit of reading an English newspaper two days old and being quite satisfied with it, when everything else also had two days' less importance than it would at home, and gradually he tasted the delights of the detached onlooker who need do nothing but warn, criticise, prophesy, protest.
— from The Arbiter: A Novel by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady

No snow, no rain, nor cold weather; the sun shone from morning to evening without dimming: the children rolled about in the dust of the streets and the highways; at the hour of repose, after supper, the merchants, shopkeepers, goldsmiths, wheelwrights, and artisans came out upon their doorsteps to look on the sky that was always blue, the trees whose leaves were still not falling, the [ 109 ] storks standing up on the ridges of the roofs, and the swallows that had not yet gone away.
— from The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume 1 (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles de Coster

At times doubts occurred to him as to his own recollections; he had a hole in his memory, a black spot, an abyss dug by four months of agony.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo