“That puts me in mind of the reason he gave for not going with us.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Consult the women’s opinions in bodily matters, in all that concerns the senses; consult the men in matters of morality and all that concerns the understanding.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They cannot thus extricate themselves; that which they choose as a means, as the road to salvation, is in itself again only an expression of degeneration—they only modify its mode of manifesting itself: they do not abolish it Socrates was a misunderstanding.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In this respect continually, The good text, "Not too much," is met Often, but never practised yet.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Hanúmán, Jambumáli met In mortal opposition set.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But an aristocracy is that form in which neither [142] the rich, nor the poor, nor the most illustrious men of the city rule, but the most nobly born have the chief sway.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Ebbing men indeed, Most often, do so near the bottom run By their own fear or sloth.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Thence to Mr. Povy’s, and with Creed to the ‘Change and to my house, but, it being washing day, dined not at home, but took him (I being invited) to Mr. Hubland’s, the merchant, where Sir William Petty, and abundance of most ingenious men, owners and freighters of “The Experiment,” now going with her two bodies to sea.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Perhaps it will be a means of raising me in my own eyes!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

[Pg 178] among other books, a volume of the poems of my friend Pfeiffer , which were not published till after his decease; and as I had long wished to set something from it to music in memory of him, I chose one of them: “ Die Weihe der Töne ,” which pleased me very much, and appeared to me particularly well suited for the composition of a cantata.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

Nor is it necessary that musical compositions should have much intrinsic merit, or that they should call up any distinct remembrance of the agreeable ideas associated with them.
— from Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly Ball

Everywhere he sees how evil a thing the merchant is making of life, and how cleverly he crushes and spoils it.
— from Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade by Maksim Gorky

4, 16, 2.] where mention is made of Kan'amu or "Canaanite slaves from Khal."
— from Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

They had all seated them-selves, and were looking from one to the other of the more important members of the guild with an air which betokened the momentary expectation of a crisis.
— from The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 by Mary Noailles Murfree

This incident was probably not sufficiently heroic to please Morris, and in the poem no mention is made of Signy’s clever device, Sigmund gaining his freedom in a more dignified fashion and the details being slurred over lightly, with a vague and general allusion to snapping “with greedy teeth.”
— from William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist by Elisabeth Luther Cary

Her talents appeared in her writings, and in her friendship with the most intelligent men of the day.
— from Constantinople, painted by Warwick Goble, described by Alexander Van Millingen by Alexander Van Millingen

I have troubled you at this length because my mind is much occupied with the pathology of these cases, and because no case can, on personal grounds, more strongly challenge our attention.
— from John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would beg any one of my hearers who thinks that Borrow might well have page 93 p. 93 a memorial in marble or bronze in your city to wait a while.
— from Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter

“My Lord,” answered Marcotte, in a tone of mingled dignity and sorrow, “My Lord, say that it is my fault, call me a fool, a blockhead, a scoundrel, a blackguard, an idiot; insult me in my own person, or in that of my wife, of my children, and it is nothing to me; but for the sake of all my past services to you, do not attack me in my office of chief pricker, do not insult your dogs.”
— from The Wolf-Leader by Alexandre Dumas