Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high—mindedness.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

C'est pour l'instant juste un moyen de communication de plus (mail) avec nos clients des magasins et nos clients bibliothèques et centres de documentation.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

One night, in Havana, a young shipmate of his was brought aboard drunk, with a dangerous gash in his head, and his money and new clothes stripped from him.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaura (a neighbour city, whither I had journeyed to learn grammar and rhetoric), the expenses for a further journey to Carthage were being provided for me; and that rather by the resolution than the means of my father, who was but a poor freeman of Thagaste.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

[“If wisdom be conferred with this reservation, that I must keep it to myself, and not communicate it to others, I would none of it.” —Seneca, Ep., 6.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Once mounted ( by munificence, suasion, magic of genius ) high enough in favour with the Oeil-de-Boeuf, with the King, Queen, Stock-Exchange, and so far as possible with all men, a Nonpareil Controller may hope to go careering through the Inevitable, in some unimagined way, as handsom
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

If Southern white men are not careful, they will overreach themselves and public sentiment will have a reaction; a conclusion will then be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

She has the law on her side; she has popular sentiment on her side; she has plenty of money and no conscience.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Many people pity them, and I always did it myself and never charged anything; but it is doubtful if this compassion is valued.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

I did give him a short account of what I had done with Mr. Coventry, and so left him, and to my wife again in the coach, and with her to the Parke, but the Queene being gone by the Parke to Kensington, we staid not but straight home and to supper (the first time I have done so this summer), and so to my office doing business, and then to my monthly accounts, where to my great comfort I find myself better than I was still the last month, and now come to L930.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In a few moments a nurse came in.
— from The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

These cups were chiefly made at Athens; they are frequently mentioned by Middle and New Comedy writers, and are described by Athenaeus
— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

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— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster

If one looked before one there was nothing but Indians, and behind one, nothing but Indians, and so on either hand, I myself in the midst, and no Christian soul near me, and yet how hath the Lord preserved me in safety?
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

The only plan, that could successfully defy the French and capture Rome, was to seize the government,—its army and navy and arsenals,—and make a national crusade with all the resources of the country.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

Tye on "Mater ait natæ," &c., 248.
— from Notes and Queries, Index to Seventh Volume, January-June 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Perhaps more high some daring son may soar, Proud to my list to add one monarch more; And, nobly conscious, princes are but things Born for first ministers, as slaves for kings, Tyrant supreme!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

From Sardis to Kelænæ, he had a measured road and numbered parasangs of distance; it is probable that the same mensuration and numeration continued for four days farther, as far as Keramôn-Agora, (since I imagine that the road from Kelænæ to the Halys and Kappadokia must have gone through these two places,)—and possibly it may have continued even as far as Ikonium or Dana.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

With an appendix, attempting to prove, that miracles are not ceased.
— from Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey