(“N.B.—Let me remember to consider; am I mad at this moment, or not? or rather at these moments?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Advance psychological warfare plans for concrete military operations not only require a statement of the propaganda operation to be performed with facilities and personnel who are expected to remain static, but demand that the psychological warfare personnel, together with the needful gear, be moved right along with the advancing forces.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Whoever calmly reflects on the manner in which laws are enacted by legislative bodies, under the influence of human passions and prejudices, often at the dictation of party leaders or of popular sentiment, of office-seekers or wealthy corporations, etc., will not maintain for a moment that human laws and human tribunals are to be accepted as the supreme measure or norma of right and wrong.
— from Moral Principles and Medical Practice: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Charles Coppens

The Downy Woodpecker is fond of suet Mr. Frank M. Miller, of New Orleans, reported a case in which five thousand eggs had been broken on one Louisiana island inhabited by sea birds in order that fresh eggs might subsequently be gathered into the boats waiting at anchor off shore.
— from The Bird Study Book by T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert) Pearson

Abroad, and as emigrants, they are trusted as men of no other race are: in the countries of La Plata in South America, the town-house, during the summer absence of the proprietor and his family, is given over to a Gallego, as it stands, to be taken care of, and rarely indeed is an article missing.
— from Spain by Wentworth Webster

And, moreover, our nerves of right and wrong are, somehow, much less well protected than our visual or acoustic nerves: they seem to be more on the surface of our nature, and they are much more easily injured: it takes a good deal of bad painting and bad music to deprave a man's eye or ear, and more than we can well conceive to make him blind or deaf; but it takes less than we think of base literature to injure a man's moral perception, to make him see and hear moral things completely wrong.
— from Belcaro; Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee

A patrolman leaves his beat for a cup of coffee on a cold morning, or night, or reads a newspaper, or smokes, or stops to converse while on duty.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

The men of no other race are so amply dowered with hats as are the men of Korea.
— from Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln

They were in this case made of parchment, and fastened by means of nails or rivets and "chastones":— "Īt p̰ qualibet cresta j. pell' parcamen̄ rud'.
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

This, added to the horror raised by the storm, looked very dismal, insomuch that my author––a man of no ordinary resolution and firmness of mind––confessed it made a great impression on himself.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

A Patrolman leaves his beat for a cup of coffee on a cold morning, or night, or reads a newspaper, or smokes, or stops to converse while on duty.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe