[“What is the reason that the oracles at Delphi are no longer uttered: not merely in this age of ours, but for a long time past, insomuch that nothing is more in contempt?” —Cicero, De Divin., ii. 57.]
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“The name of M. Noirtier,” interposed Maximilian, “is celebrated throughout Europe; he was a statesman of high standing, and you may or may not know, Valentine, that he took a leading part in every Bonapartist conspiracy set on foot during the restoration of the Bourbons.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

For if the thought of freedom contradicts either itself or nature, which is equally necessary, it must in competition with physical necessity be entirely given up.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

In these impious fables, a physical and not inelegant meaning is contained; for they would denote that the celestial, most exalted, and ethereal nature—that is, the fiery nature, which produces all things by itself—is destitute of that part of the body which is necessary for the act of generation by conjunction with another.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

A complex which is only a mood or a "side of the character" of a normal individual may, in conditions of dissociation, become the main, perhaps sole, complex and chief characteristic of the new personality.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The propaganda experts were not, in most instances, called in to do the actual chore of propaganda.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

For it wasn't good for anything; it could not build a shack, it could not improve melons, it could not hurry a fruit crop; it was useless, it was a foolishness and a vanity; he would despise it and say cutting words.
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

(3) Once more, at the close of St Paul’s life (about A.D. 67), he appears again to have associated himself with the Apostle, when his name is mentioned in connexion with a mission to Crete (Tit. iii. 12) and another to Ephesus (2 Tim.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The quality of surveys is improving with time, yet caution is still necessary in making inter-country comparisons.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

That is malice with which you always break out when his name is mentioned in conversation.
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

There's no intentional mischief in Con O'Donnell; it's only effervescence.
— from Celt and Saxon — Complete by George Meredith

That rack interested me,—I hardly knew why,—and regardless of the noise I made, I crossed over to it and ran my hand along the wall underneath.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

PETERSON The fourth discordant note in my instrument came to me by the death of one of my later pupils, Miss Pauline Peterson, who began with her sister, Miss Minnie Peterson, in 1896.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

The nest is made in crevices, small holes, sometimes between the loosened bark and the tree, and is composed of fine soft material.
— from Birds useful and birds harmful by Ottó Herman

All these treasons against the sanctities of nature had dipus committed; and yet was this dipus a thoroughly good man, no more dreaming of the horrors in which he was entangled, than the eye at noonday in midsummer is conscious of the stars that lie far behind the daylight.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey