Just a new elastic to my hat, and new laces to my boots.
— from The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt

The blame rests with the eschatological school itself, for it applied the eschatological explanation only to the preaching of Jesus, and not even to the whole of this, but only to the Messianic secret, instead of using it also to throw light upon the whole public work of Jesus, the connexion and want of connexion between the events.
— from The Quest of the Historical Jesus A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede by Albert Schweitzer

The term of course signifies military men; nevertheless, it has not acquired so much prominence as it has done in Japan, because in China military men have never attained the same importance and organisation as in Japan, and naturally enough there exists in China no such term as Bushido in its concrete sense, Bushido being peculiarly unique to the Japanese.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and sell the rights, and violate the liberties of the people.
— from An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner

[271] "Take advice from plain old Joe, and never educate that sort of people, sir," returned the major.
— from Scenes and Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens Being Eight Hundred and Sixty-six Pictures Printed from the Original Wood Blocks by Charles Dickens

Independent thought is certainly here advanced; the content too, is taken from the self; but we must just as necessarily exclude this mode of thinking from Philosophy.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Return together home to lovely Greece, With joy a new existence to comm
— from Iphigenia in Tauris by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

These horrible profanations are found in several places in the "Talmud," in the books of Nizachon, in the dispute of Rittangel, in those of Jechiel and Nachmanides, entitled the "Bulwark of Faith," and above all in the abominable work of the Toldos Jeschut.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire