And in this Chayn, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events; in such manner, as he that will do any thing for his pleasure, must engage himselfe to suffer all the pains annexed to it; and these pains, are the Naturall Punishments of those actions, which are the beginning of more Harme that Good.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

It might easily happen that a French lady and an American, neither understanding the tongue of the other, meet at the house of an Italian, where there is also an Italian monolinguist, so that the hostess has to talk in three languages at once.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

“As happy as possible; and yet, sir, you may make me even happier than I am.” “Well, speak, if it depends on me.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

When we were alone, I told her all that had passed; for I thought, though he had bid me not, yet if he should come to know I had told, it would be no worse; for to keep a secret of such a nature, would be, as I apprehended, to deprive myself of the good advice which I never wanted more; and might encourage him to think I did not resent it as I ought, and would keep worse secrets, and so make him do worse by me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

A physician therefore, a judge or a statesman, may have in his head many admirable pathological, juridical, or political rules, in a degree that may enable him to be a profound teacher in his particular science, and yet in the application of these rules he may very possibly blunder—either because he is wanting in natural judgement (though not in understanding) and, whilst he can comprehend the general in abstracto, cannot distinguish whether a particular case in concreto ought to rank under the former; or because his faculty of judgement has not been sufficiently exercised by examples and real practice.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Thus in the midst of a half-expressed thought he makes a quick change of front, and having almost in his anger torn one word into two persons, “who, vilest of men,” etc., he then breaks off his address to Aristogeiton, and seems to leave him, nevertheless, by the passion of his utterance, rousing all the more the attention of the court.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Mrs. Bennet was restored to her usual querulous serenity, and by the middle of June Kitty was so much recovered as to be able to enter Meryton without tears; an event of such happy promise as to make Elizabeth hope, that by the following Christmas, she might be so tolerably reasonable as not to mention an officer above once a day, unless by some cruel and malicious arrangement at the war-office, another regiment should be quartered in Meryton.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The talkative person therefore is merely as regards words a white line, 603 but he that is especially inclined to certain subjects should be especially on his guard against talking about them, and should avoid such topics, since from the pleasure they give him they may entice him to be very prolix and tedious.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Now, unfortunately, if we want to take a serious view of any question, we have first of all to consider whether it will not give offence in some way or other to the dullard, who generally shows alarm and resentment at the merest sign of intelligence; and it may easily happen that the head which contains the intelligent view has to be pitted against the noodle which is empty of everything but narrowness and stupidity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

by the most elementary heraldic text-book.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I meant to tell you not how Americans live in the spirit, illogically, blindly, and blunderingly, but how they live in the body, and more especially how they house themselves in this city of New York.
— from Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance by William Dean Howells

They asserted, that malt-spirits were absolutely necessary for prosecuting some branches of foreign commerce, particularly the trade to the coast of Africa, for which traffic no assortment could be made up without a large quantity of geneva, of which the natives are so fond, that they will not traffic with any merchant who has not a considerable quantity, not only for sale, but also for presents to their chiefs and rulers; that the merchants of Great Britain must either have this commodity of their own produce, or import it at a great national expense from Holland; that the charge of this importation, together with the duties payable upon it, some part of which is not to be drawn back on exportation, will render it impossible for the traders to sell it so cheap on the coast of Africa as it might be sold by the Dutch, who are the great rivals of Great Britain in this branch of commerce.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Moreover the true genius must ever have the capacity to feel deeper love and emotions than the man in the street"
— from Spirit and Music by H. Ernest (Harry Ernest) Hunt

Then, for the first time, did men enter houses; those houses were caverns, and thick shrubs, and twigs fastened together with bark.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Miss Essie had thanked Miss Holt for her goodness to her friend “Will Maxwell,” as she called him.
— from David Fleming's Forgiveness by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

"Woman," He said, not calling her "mother," lest identification with Himself might expose her to insult, "behold thy Son."
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

The Augustinian, their actions said, might even halt the blizzard by raising his hand and commanding it to stop.
— from Rescue Dog of the High Pass by Jim Kjelgaard