It is a strange and unworthy feeling that prompts a man not to claim that to which he has a right, for fear that he may one day lose it; for by the same reasoning he might refuse wealth, reputation, or wisdom, for fear of losing them hereafter.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The more sublime the drama, the more profound the analysis to which the poet has had to subject the raw materials of daily life in order to obtain the tragic element in its unadulterated form.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

True wife, Round my true heart thine arms entwine; My other dearer life in life, Look thro' my very soul with thine!
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The superiority of the independent workman over those servants who are hired by the month or by the year, and whose wages and maintenance are the same, whether they do much or do little, is likely to be still greater.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Sheridan became manager of Drury Lane, in succession to Garrick, in 1776, the first performance under his control being on September 21.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

[196] To these are added other, and constant, allusions to sleep, man's strange half-conscious life; to the misery of its withholding; to the terrible dreams of remorse; to the cursed thoughts from which Banquo is free by day, but which tempt him in his sleep: and again to abnormal disturbances of sleep; in the two men, of whom one during the murder of Duncan laughed in his sleep, and the other raised a cry of murder; and in Lady Macbeth, who rises to re-enact in somnambulism those scenes the memory of which is pushing her on to madness or suicide.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Whether or not such insect-borne bacilli are capable of infecting persons whose skin and mucosa are thus contaminated, Currie was unwilling to maintain, but he concludes that until we have more accurate knowledge on this point, we are justified in regarding these insects with grave suspicion of being one of the means of disseminating leprous infection.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

He got hold of one of the wandering ghosts of porters, and got him, with a douceur, to change the poor woman’s cheap ticket for her into one for the express, and commissioned him, if possible, to get her a place in a sleeping carriage, where, I fear, she was not likely to be at all a warmly welcomed addition to the luxurious young men or delicate ladies in these conveyances.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“We fire right in de middel ob de lot?” inquired Zombo hastily.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We could not assume that the Soviet Union would not develop the same weapon, regardless of all our precautions, nor that there were not other and even more terrible means of destruction lying in the unexplored field of atomic energy.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

He made a last effort for the contemporaneous life by asking the English-speaking clerk if there were any literary men of distinction living in Nuremberg, and the clerk said there was not one.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 by William Dean Howells

The Richmond Asylum from the first led the way in enlightened modes of treatment, and at the present time this institution, under the long and able management of Dr. Lalor, is a credit to Ireland; the more so that here, more efficiently than in any asylum I have visited in the British Isles, the employment of the patients in school work has been introduced and prosecuted to a successful issue.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

The democratic element is again lifting its head, and a great meeting of democratic leaders is soon to be held at Frankfort-on-the-Main, unless it be prohibited by the authorities.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

But I don't care any more, for I have found so many other darling loves in life."
— from The Girl Scouts at Bellaire; Or, Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis

Let us not meanly seek to maintain our delicate lives in chambers or in legislative halls by a timid watchfulness 479 of the rude mobs that threaten to pull down our baby-houses.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau