For if they have both immortality and blessedness in common with the gods, and neither of these in common with men, who are both miserable and mortal, are they not rather remote from men and united with the gods, than intermediate between them?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We shall never be able to move again, unless we can free our limbs from these paper shackles.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

In general, it may be affirmed, that there is no such passion in human minds, as the love of mankind, merely as such, independent of personal qualities, of services, or of relation to ourseit It is true, there is no human, and indeed no sensible, creature, whose happiness or misery does not, in some measure, affect us when brought near to us, and represented in lively colours:
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

His lordship, with his eyes upon his papers, listened, nodded twice or thrice, turned over more leaves, and did not look towards me again until we were going away.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

735 This may be referred to the inflammable vapours mentioned above, unless we regard the whole narrative as fabulous.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

“The Clarksons met an unknown woman in the back lane,” he said to himself—“ that is his case!
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

And as for thy body, what canst thou fear, if thou dost consider that thy mind and understanding, when once it hath recollected itself, and knows its own power, hath in this life and breath (whether it run smoothly and gently, or whether harshly and rudely), no interest at all, but is altogether indifferent: and whatsoever else thou hast heard and assented unto concerning either pain or pleasure?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

§ 154 sûmô, sûmere, sûmpsî, sûmptus , take up, assume sustineô, sustinêre, sustinuî, sustentus , sustain LESSON L, § 288 corpus, corporis , n., body (corporal) dênsus, -a, -um , dense îdem, e´adem, idem , demonstrative pronoun, the same (identity) ipse, ipsa, ipsum , intensive pronoun, self; even, very mîrus, -a, -um , wonderful, marvelous (miracle) ôlim , adv., formerly, once upon a time pars, partis (-ium) , f., part, region, direction quoque , adv., also .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Mankind are unco' weak, / And little to be trusted; / If self the wavering balance shake, / It's rarely right adjusted.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Physically, six letters are as much a unit when they do not form a word as when they do; but we can make a unitary response to the six in the one case and not in the other.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

"What's the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily, sadly-like.
— from Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Howard Roger Garis

“ For the strong men and unafraid will Chia walk ,” the priest read.
— from Hearts of Three by Jack London

In this most awful uncertainty, with the letter in his hand, he continued till he arrived at his father’s gate.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

Now you just come along with me," and Uncle Wiggily picked up off the porch his red, white and blue striped barber-pole rheumatism crutch that Nurse Jane had gnawed for him out of a cornstalk.
— from Uncle Wiggily in the Woods by Howard Roger Garis

One day he delivered his mail as usual, with no undue precipitation; on the next, the blameless soul was himself taken and forwarded on some celestial route.
— from Oldport Days by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"What does it matter about us when mother has the long journey and father is so ill?"
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

"It is many years since our first meeting, and unhappily we have the date of it fixed.
— from Major Vigoureux by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Besides Mörike, and Uhland, whose “Inn” we quoted above, Johann Peter Hebel, a son of the Black Forest, has always shown a special predilection for the sign and its wonders.
— from Old Tavern Signs: An Excursion in the History of Hospitality by Fritz August Gottfried Endell

After hard dry living on grisly mountain and unlovely Wady, this fine open plain, slightly concave in the centre, was a delightful change of diet to the eye—the first enjoyable sensation of the kind, since we had gazed lovingly upon the broad bosom of the Wady el-Arabah.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir