The executive power, placed any where but in a person that has also a share in the legislative, is visibly subordinate and accountable to it, and may be at pleasure changed and displaced; so that it is not the supreme executive power, that is exempt from subordination, but the supreme executive power vested in one, who having a share in the legislative, has no distinct superior legislative to be subordinate and accountable to, farther than he himself shall join and consent; so that he is no more subordinate than he himself shall think fit, which one may certainly conclude will be but very little.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The Hooves of the fore feet of a Cow dried and taken any away, encrease milk in nurses, the smoke of them drives away mice. Mizaldus.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It is notorious that specific characters are more variable than generic.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But, after all, is not this simply the writhing of the age translated into black,—the triumph of the Lie which today, with its false culture, faces the hideousness of the anarchist assassin? To-day the two groups of Negroes, the one in the North, the other in the South, represent these divergent ethical tendencies, the first tending toward radicalism, the other toward hypocritical compromise.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

My office is near the station .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

But what makes Montaigne a very great figure is that he succeeded, God knows how—for Montaigne very likely did not know that he had done it—it is not the sort of thing that men can observe about themselves, for it is essentially bigger than the individual's consciousness—he succeeded in giving [Pg xv] expression to the scepticism of every human being.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Yet, while desiring to impress in the most forcible manner possible the fact that will-power is necessary to success, and that, other things being equal, the greater the will-power, the grander and more complete the success, we can not indorse the theory that there is nothing in circumstances or environments, or that any man, simply because he has an indomitable will, may become a Bonaparte, a Pitt, a Webster, a Beecher, a Lincoln.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This morning my wife dressed herself fine to go to the christening of Mrs. Hunt’s child, and so she and I in the way in the morning went to the Paynter s, and there she sat till noon, and I all the while looking over great variety of good prints which he had, and by and by comes my boy to tell us that Mrs. Hunt has been at our house to tell us that the christening is not till Saturday next.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Stood at 90° above 0 in the evening a heavy thunder Shower from the S W. which continud at intervales untill after dark, Several deer killed to day men all employed dressing Skins for Clothes & Mockersons, two men went up the East fork & reports that it is nearly the Size of the N. fork, verry rapid & has maney Islands.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Slaying wealth is not the same thing as dividing it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I felt guilty myself, and Lucinda was touched to remorse, if not to shame.
— from Lucinda by Anthony Hope

“It is not tenable,” said Mr. Stone.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

"I need the services of just such an unscrupulous and clever individual as you have proven yourself to be.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

It is never too soon to begin watching against sin.
— from Days of Heaven Upon Earth by A. B. (Albert B.) Simpson

Before leaving the nest they had felt big and very important; now they suddenly felt small and young and helpless.
— from Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

His deliberation was unfailing and sometimes it carried the idea of indecision, not to say actual love of procrastination.
— from Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

The process of disentombment was not proceeded with very rapidly at first; it lingered on, in not too skilful hands, till Garibaldi appointed Alexandre Dumas as superintendent of the work in 1860.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

He had a talk with his aunt on the subject; she had divined, in some marvellous way, the fact that the news had disturbed him; and she said, "Of course, dear Howard, I quite understand that this is not the same thing to you as it is to Maud and me.
— from Watersprings by Arthur Christopher Benson

The least I can do in return is not to stand in the way of your future prospects.”
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

" "Oh, I noticed that," she said quickly.
— from Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton