This visit had infused new vigor into Dantès; he had, till then, forgotten the date; but now, with a fragment of plaster, he wrote the date, 30th July, 1816, and made a mark every day, in order not to lose his reckoning again.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

One while let Jupiter be the soul of this corporeal world, who fills and moves that whole mass, constructed and compacted out of four, or as many elements as they please; another while, let him yield to his sister and brothers their parts of it: now let him be the ether, that from above he may embrace Juno, the air spread out beneath; again, let him be the whole heaven along with the air, and impregnate with fertilizing showers and seeds the earth, as his wife, and, at the same time, his [Pg 149] mother (for this is not vile in divine beings); and yet again (that it may not be necessary to run through them all), let him, the one god, of
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The doctrine of Shakespeare, where it is not vaguer, is darker in its implication of injustice, in its acceptance of accident, than the impression of the doctrine of Aeschylus.
— from The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

If suffered to form a junction, and arrange their plans for attack or defence, an army, of force so superior to the French in numbers, veterans in discipline, and commanded by a general like Wurmser, was likely to prevent all the advantages which the French might gain by a sudden irruption, ere an opposition so formidable was collected and organized.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

B. Spinoza , a leader in later philosophy, states expressly: “ Humility is no virtue; it does not spring from reason.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

There is no vitality in drugs.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard

For as a healthy person whose Tast is not vitiated, is directed by that, without examining the Philosophy of Bodys to such things as are fit for the nourishment of his own: So a Divine Sensation gives us a lively relish of what’s Good, and a perfect aversion to the contrary.
— from A serious proposal to the Ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest (In Two Parts) by Mary Astell

If circumstances shut us up to doing certain things, there is no virtue in doing them.
— from What Necessity Knows by L. (Lily) Dougall

This cavalier tone from an unknown person, whose exterior indicated nothing very important, did not please me, and I declined satisfying his curiosity.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott