He had not then the least intimation of my intention to set up there or anywhere.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / 20 Make instruments to scourge us.
— 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.

When the carriages eventually rolled up to a large, low, cavernous gateway, another man in the same uniform, but wearing a silver star on the grey breast of his coat, came out to meet them.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There is no moral in the story, unless it be that of the Irish maxim, which applies to every occupation of life as much as to the solving of puzzles: "Take things aisy; if you can't take them aisy, take them as aisy as you can."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Sassburger said prayerfully, “Say, boys, before you go, seeing this is the last chance, I've GOT IT, up in my room, and Miriam here is the best little mixelogist in the Stati Unidos like us Italians say.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

In the winter I warmed myself in the sun, under the porch of the Hôtel de Sens, and I thought it very ridiculous that the fire on Saint John’s Day was reserved for the dog days.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The advantage three men in this situation united must have over a fourth in mine, cannot but already appear.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us."
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Every one has heard that when an American forest is cut down, a very different vegetation springs up; but it has been observed that the trees now growing on the ancient Indian mounds, in the Southern United States, display the same beautiful diversity and proportion of kinds as in the surrounding virgin forests.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

“Make it two shillings,” urged Saurin.
— from Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough

These should be taken off at a joint where the wood is ripening, at which point the root fibres are formed, and put into a pot with a compost of one part garden mould, one part vegetable mould, and one part sand, and then kept moderately moist, in the shade, until they have formed strong root fibres, when they may be planted out.
— from Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson

They should not be exercised as advocates, but as [Pg 232] judges; they should be encouraged to keep their minds impartial, to sum up the reasons which they have heard, and to form their opinion from these without regard to what they may have originally asserted.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

After ten months of almost continuous contact with its various phenomena, and week after week spent in the same atmosphere, where one is always surrounded by the same types of men in the same uniforms, the same transport, the same guns, the same Red Cross, and in fact everything the same in general appearance, it becomes very difficult to get up new interest in the surroundings, and that deadly monotony of even the happenings makes it increasingly difficult to write about it.
— from The Russian Campaign, April to August, 1915 Being the Second Volume of "Field Notes from the Russian Front" by Stanley Washburn

But the gestures of a man in this state usually differ from the purposeless writhings and struggles of one suffering from an agony of pain; for they represent more or less plainly the act of striking or fighting with an enemy.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Edgar, the true son, says to Edmund, after having righteously dealt him his death-wound,— “The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us: The dark and vicious place where thee he got Cost him his eyes.”
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

I cannot do otherwise, inasmuch as there is no rule of truth superior to the thoughts of men, and because the human mind is the supreme, universal, and infallible intelligence.
— from The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville