Yet the wonder of her art is that, having confined herself within certain bounds, she transforms into herself all things within her scope which seem to be corrupting, or waxing old and useless; and out of them she makes other new forms; so that she neither needs matter from without nor a place where to cast out her refuse.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

As Emerson says, Talleyrand's question is ever the main one; not, is he rich?
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

‘And part of the roof came off, and ever so much thunder got in—and it went rolling round the room in great lumps—and knocking over the tables and things—till I was so frightened, I couldn’t remember my own name!’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Jourgniac de Saint-Meard goes; the brisk frank soldier: he was in the Mutiny of Nancy, in that 'effervescent Regiment du Roi,'—on the wrong side.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Be careful, when introducing your friends, to pronounce the name of each one clearly and distinctly, that there may be no mistake or necessity for repetition.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

A conception of space and time as quanta may be presented a priori in intuition, that is, constructed, either alone with their quality (figure), or as pure quantity (the mere synthesis of the homogeneous), by means of number.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

[4692] Est orcus ille, vis est immedicabilis, est rabies insana ; 'tis no virtuous habit this, but a vehement perturbation of the mind, a monster of nature, wit, and art, as Alexis in [4693] Athenaeus sets it out, viriliter audax, muliebriter timidium, furore praeceps, labore infractum, mel felleum, blanda percussio , &c. It subverts kingdoms, overthrows cities, towns, families, mars, corrupts, and makes a massacre of men; thunder and lightning, wars, fires, plagues, have not done that mischief to mankind, as this burning lust, this brutish passion.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So at noon, when I heard that he was a-coming, I went out, because I would see whether he would send to me or no to go with them; but he did not, which do a little trouble me till I see how it comes to pass.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The meaning of neurotic symptoms was first discovered by J. Breuer in the study and felicitous cure of a case of hysteria which has since become famous (1880-82).
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Most of North America was useless; nothing could be planted, no one could live.
— from Second Variety by Philip K. Dick

I said one day to M. de Talleyrand that in my opinion nothing was left to M. de Montrond except to blow out his brains.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

H2 anchor CHAPTER X. COAL TOWN THREE years after the events which have just been related, the guide-books recommended as a “great attraction,” to the numerous tourists who roam over the county of Stirling, a visit of a few hours to the mines of New Aberfoyle.
— from The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern) by Jules Verne

From the middle of November 1832, to the beginning of the subsequent July, the Rev. Thomas Morell, jun. (nephew of the eminent p. 237 principal of Coward College, London,) laboured here.
— from Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian counties by S. Wilton (Samuel Wilton) Rix

About this time Munro of Novar offered twenty-five thousand pounds for the whole contents of the Queen Anne Street Gallery.
— from Turner's Golden Visions by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind

If they had really stopped to consider that some type of fossil might occur next to the Archaean in Wales, and another type occur thus in Scotland, while still another type altogether might be found in this position in some other locality, and so on over the world, leading us to the very natural conclusion that in the olden times as now there were zoological provinces and districts , the history of science during the nineteenth century might have been very different, and this chapter might never have been written.
— from Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory by George McCready Price

[72] The verses enclosed were those melancholy ones, now printed in his works, "There's not a joy the world can give like those it takes away."
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

The Diana of the country is more amiable; it is the lively and gracious Margaret of Navarre, sister and liberatress of Francis I. She came to these waters with her court, her poets, her musicians, her savants, a poet and theologian herself, of infinite curiosity, reading Greek, learning Hebrew, and taken up with Calvinism.
— from A Tour Through the Pyrenees by Hippolyte Taine

Skookum John, which in Chinook means "Strong John," was a Makah, or Neah Bay, Indian, whose home was at Cape Flattery on the shore of the Pacific, and at the southern side of the entrance to the superb strait of Juan de Fuca.
— from Harper's Round Table, April 21, 1896 by Various

They told him that if he could begin his return by the middle of November, his army could get safely out of Russia before the winter set in.
— from The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men by Francis Rolt-Wheeler