‘Tis by the mediation of custom, that every one is content with the place where he is planted by nature; and the Highlanders of Scotland no more pant after Touraine; than the Scythians after Thessaly.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

On the same day I issued my General Orders No. 12, assuming command and naming all the heads of staff departments and bureaus as members of my staff, adding to my then three aides, Colonels McCoy, Dayton, and Audenried, the names of Colonels Comstock, Horace Porter, and Dent, agreeing with President Grant that the two latter could remain with him till I should need their personal services or ask their resignations.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The elder prisoner was one of those persons whose conversation, like that of all who have experienced many trials, contained many useful and important hints as well as sound information; but it was never egotistical, for the unfortunate man never alluded to his own sorrows.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And, besides all this, there is a confusion between the harmony of musical notes and the harmony of soul and body, which is so potently inspired by them.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The restless energy of the Athenian character is perhaps reflected in the discipline imposed upon the ruling class (7. 540 ), who when they have reached fifty are dispensed from continuous public service, but must then devote themselves to abstract study, and also be willing to take their turn when necessary at the helm of state [ cp.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The separation from my Idris was painful—but necessity reconciled us to it in some degree: necessity and the hope of saving Raymond, and restoring him again to happiness and Perdita.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She has had an excellent night, and the hope of seeing you at the casino has restored all her beauty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It consecrated the funeral pyre and the marriage rite, and boundary stakes driven in by a hammer were considered as sacred among Northern nations as the Hermæ or statues of Mercury, removal of which was punishable by death.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Then Brunnhilde trembled, but delayed not, and taking hold of Sieglinde she showed her the way she must follow.
— from The Valkyries by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

His successes in that line had been very numerous, according to his own showing, and had confirmed him in the belief that there was no such thing as virtue in the world.
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

But when he departed there was a sense of being cut off from all events, separated from the world altogether, shut out from the news and the hum of society, which was very blank and deadening.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

It was a question he could not answer to his own satisfaction.
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various

In time these ``streets'' obtained a bad name as the haunt of suspicious characters, and they have long been enclosed and let as cellars.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

He had often dwelt with pleasure on the idea of this union, and had never abandoned the hope of seeing it take place.
— from Popular Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

To some extent this was the case, for of Tarikhi Narshakhi , and the history of Seid Rakim Khan both of which furnish rich material for the history of Central Asia, our Orientalists had never heard.
— from The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2 by Ármin Vámbéry

Having sat on the occasion till seven, Sir H. Vane complained, “We are not able to hold out sitting thus in the night.”
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

"Yes," he cried, "if the young men of England hang back, if they fail to love their country, if they care nothing about the honour or sacredness of womanhood, if they prefer their own ease, their own paltry pleasures, before duty; if they would rather go to cinema shows, or hang around public-house doors than play the game like Englishmen, this, and more than this, will take place.
— from Tommy by Joseph Hocking