The fact that science follows the subject-matter in its own movement involves a further consequence: science differs from common knowledge in scope only, not in nature.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The Kunbi is seldom or never seen with his head bare; this being considered a bad omen because every one bares his head when a death occurs.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

You’re simply bursting to tell it, whatever it is, whether we promise to keep it secret or not.”
— from General John Regan by George A. Birmingham

Men have a great deal of pleasure in human knowledge, in studies of natural things; but this is nothing to that joy which arises from this divine light shining into the soul.
— from Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards by Jonathan Edwards

He then pointed out to me some men, miserable looking and wretchedly clad, who were crawling on their hands and knees in search of nuggets of gold that the wanton bathers had thrown in a liquid state on to the shore, where it had cooled.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I by M. Y. Halidom