Thus the jurisprudence of every nation will show that, when law becomes a science and a system, it ceases to be justice.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He also enjoined them to reside and judge the people, the one at the city of Bethel, and the other at Beersheba, and divided the people into districts that should be under the jurisdiction of each of them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

s man who makes such a figure and talks in such a strain?” “Who should it be,” said the barber, “but the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of injustice, the righter of wrongs, the protector of damsels, the terror of giants, and the winner of battles?” “That,” said the goatherd, “sounds like what one reads in the books of the knights-errant, who did all that you say this man does; though it is my belief that either you are joking, or else this gentleman has empty lodgings in his head.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Samuel , capture and release of 74 Hanging-maw , capture of Creek murderer by order of 77 Hanging-maw , conference at Tellico attended by 79 Hanging-maw , killing of wife of 74 Hanging-maw , expedition against Creeks under 77 Hanging-maw , wounding of 74 Harden, E. J. , on events leading to Removal 125 Harden, William , acknowledgments to 13 Hard Labor , treaty of 46 , 203 Hard-mush , death of 145 Hard-mush on Iroquois peace embassy 353 , 355 , 356 Hard-mush , treaty with Texas signed by 144 Harley, Timothy , on Eskimo myths 441 Harley, Timothy on primitive ideas concerning eclipses 441 Harmony , development of lxxii–lxxiii Harris, Bird, plan for emigration by 156 Harris, I. N. , printer of Cherokee Phœnix 111 Harris, J. C. , on character of rabbit in negro tales 233 Harris, J. C. on negro myths 448 , 450 , 452 Harris, J. C. on relation of Indian, negro, and European myths 234 Harrison, Benjamin , proclamation by, preventing lease of Cherokee strip 153 Harrison , Gen. W. H., capture of Prophet’s town by 215 Hart, J. C. , on East Cherokee condition in 1897 179 Hatcher, J. B. , work of xviii Hatcinoñdoñ , legend of 362 , 490 – 491 Haunted whirlpool , legend of 347 Hawk , myths and lore concerning 284 , 286 – 287 Hawk , see also Tlă′nuwă .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

J OHN Evans was a Welch Man, had been formerly Master of a Sloop belonging to Nevis , but losing his Employ there, he sailed for some Time out of Jamaica as Mate, till happening in Company of three or four of his Comrades, and Wages not being so good as formerly, and Births scarce, because of the great Number of Seamen; they agreed to go abroad in search of Adventures.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The process which had begun in her—and in her a little earlier only than it must come to all of us—was the great and general renunciation which old age makes in preparation for death, the chrysalis stage of life, which may be observed wherever life has been unduly prolonged; even in old lovers who have lived for one another with the utmost intensity of passion, and in old friends bound by the closest ties of mental sympathy, who, after a certain year, cease to make, the necessary journey, or even to cross the street to see one another, cease to correspond, and know well that they will communicate no more in this world.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

There is law and justice on earth, there is, I will find it!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was jealous of everybody.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But, if I would have it called a judgment of experience, I require this connexion to stand under a condition, which makes it universally valid.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Togs and targets, balls and bats, rackets and oars are graded or numbered, weighed, and measured, and every emergency is legislated on and judged by an autocratic martinet, jealous of every prerogative and conscious of his dignity.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

She had been called out of town the night before and had turned over the job of entertaining Very Seldom to her room-mate, Miss Lee.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road; Or, Glorify Work by Hildegard G. Frey

One single unhappy moment [especially if it were the last of a long series of such!] often deprived the bravest Officer of his bread, painfully earned in peace and war, and of his reputation and honor, at least in the eyes of most men, who judge of everything only by its issue.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

The journey of early man from Bering Strait to the tip of Cape Horn was a matter of 10,000 miles.
— from Early Man in the New World by Joseph A. Hester

Make Elena dine with all the rest in the first act, let her sit and make jokes, or else there is very little of her, and she is not clear.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When their glances met again, the hosanna of the choir rang out to both like a shout of welcome with which liberated Nature exultingly greets the awakening spring; and to the deeply agitated knight, who had resolved to fly from the world and its vain pleasures, the hosanna which poured its waves of sound towards him, whilst the eyes of the woman he loved met his for the second time, seemed to revive the waning joy of existence.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

They have plodded on in honor through the dusty, dreary ways, They have hungered for life's comforts and the joys of easy days,
— from Just Folks by Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

On green mounds, behind railings, shone gay flowers, a bee buzzed by in the stillness, two white butterflies played in the air; all kinds of flies swarmed noiselessly; and everywhere grasses and plants made towards the light, hid the mournful graves, and all the green of the churchyard was full of a tense striving to grow, to develop, to drink in air and light and change the richness of the earth to colour and scent and beauty for the joy of eyes and hearts.
— from Three Men: A Novel by Maksim Gorky