The early period of Roman literature was distinguished for the introduction of satire by Lucilius, an author celebrated for writing with remarkable ease, but whose compositions, in the opinion of Horace, though Quintilian thinks otherwise, were debased with a mixture of feculency.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

There is the less fear of you or me finding one in our skin before long.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

For in it there really lies the intention of an effect upon the future through the example, and that without any selfish aim, either for the avenging person, for it costs him his life, or for a society which secures its own safety by laws.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Each must hie to her own home; wend you we might do all these journeys in one so brief life as He hath appointed that created life, and thereto death likewise with help of Adam, who by sin done through persuasion of his helpmeet, she being wrought upon and bewrayed by the beguilements of the great enemy of man, that serpent hight Satan, aforetime consecrated and set apart unto that evil work by overmastering spite and envy begotten in his heart through fell ambitions that did blight and mildew a nature erst so white and pure whenso it hove with the shining multitudes its brethren-born in glade and shade of that fair heaven wherein all such as native be to that rich estate and—” “Great Scott!”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

—‘It was the opinion that the Tylwyth Teg were a real race of invisible or spiritual beings living in an invisible world of their own.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

He came under the influence of Socrates, but little permanent effect was produced on his character by the precepts of the sage.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Amid the intoxication of success, both Law and the regent forgot the maxim so loudly proclaimed by the former, that a banker deserved death who made issues of paper without the necessary funds to provide for them.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Next in order, she bade lady Feng choose, and lady Feng, had, after all, in spite of madame Wang ranking before her in precedence, to consider old lady Chia's request, and not to presume to show obstinacy by any disobedience.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

There were but three of us, Monsieur Gaspard; Babette is gone, now you will go, and I only shall be left, a poor, miserable, dried skin of a man that—that—would give his life to go first," and he broke down, weeping.
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

I obtained seeds by legitimately crossing flowers on long-styled and short-styled plants, and by fertilising other flowers on both forms with pollen from the same plant.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

Now a right estimate or opinion is acquired in two ways, both in practical and in speculative matters, first by discovering it oneself, secondly by learning it from others.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The definite proof which we thus have afforded of the transforming and creating influence exerted upon the mental character and instincts of species by long and persistent training, coupled with artificial selection, furnishes the strongest possible corroboration of the theory which assigns psychological development in general to the joint operation of individual experience coupled with natural selection.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

Government Howland Island Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Howland Island Dependency status: unincorporated territory of the US; administered from Washington, DC, by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system Legal system: the laws of the US, where applicable, apply Flag description: the flag of the US is used Economy Howland Island Economy - overview: no economic activity Transportation Howland Island Waterways: none Ports and harbors: none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one small boat landing area along the middle of the west coast Airports: airstrip constructed in 1937 for scheduled refueling stop on the round-the-world flight of Amelia EARHART and Fred NOONAN - they left Lae, New Guinea, for Howland Island, but were never seen again; the airstrip is no longer serviceable (2002)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"A rather different opinion to that which you inculcated so strenuously a month ago," I observed, smiling; "but let me congratulate you, old fellow, with all my heart.
— from Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

This was done: but he was finally persuaded to acquiesce in a second election, to which no one more strenuously pressed him than myself, from a conviction of the importance of strengthening, by longer habit, the respect necessary for that office, which the weight of his character only could effect.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

Lust shall be cool’d with lust, wherein I’ll prove The life of love is only saved by love.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 3 by John Marston

In passing under the vertical sun the old proverb “may your shadow never grow less” is entirely out of place, for it is impossible it can diminish, unless, indeed, one should become like poor misguided Peter Schlemihl, and find oneself altogether without one!
— from Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt by Tangye, Richard, Sir