Thus not only does a long peace fill an army with old men, but it is frequently imparts the views of old men to those who are still in the prime of life.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

"It is night: now only do all lovers burst into song.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

My friend, such things are not imagined; and the doings of Socrates, which no one doubts, are less well attested than those of Jesus Christ.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nec somnum plebis laudo, satur altilium, nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Not only does aristocracy lay on the world a tax in labour and privation that its own splendours, intellectual and worldly, may arise, but by so doing it infects intelligence and grandeur with inhumanity and renders corrupt and odious that pre-eminence which should have been divine.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In hard times the number of dead and live foundlings always increases very noticeably.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Having treated of SIMPLE MODES in the foregoing chapters, and given several instances of some of the most considerable of them, to show what they are, and how we come by them; we are now in the next place to consider those we call MIXED MODES; such are the complex ideas we mark by the names OBLIGATION, DRUNKENNESS, a LIE, &c.; which consisting of several combinations of simple ideas of DIFFERENT kinds, I have called mixed modes, to distinguish them from the more simple modes, which consist only of simple ideas of the SAME kind.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Even there, Adams would have been beaten had he not been helped by Mrs. Hay, who saw the necessity of distraction, and led her husband into the habit of stopping every afternoon to take his friend off for an hour's walk, followed by a cup of tea with Mrs. Hay afterwards, and a chat with any one who called.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

On no day did he either drink water or taste food till he had written in red ink the name of Durga at least one hundred and eight times; while throughout the day he incessantly uttered the ejaculation, “O Durga!
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

I looked at the card, and on seeing the name of Dr. Adolf Leiblinger, rushed to the outer door and opened it.
— from The Jews of Barnow: Stories by Karl Emil Franzos

Cavour immediately answered that he would hold such interference to be a most fatal act of absolutism; the person to control the instruction given in the seminaries was the bishop; let bishops play the part of theologians, not of deputies, and let the Government govern, and not play the theologian.
— from Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

“Say, got more 'n one dope?” asks Lena, hopefully.
— from Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

Not only did a long series of maps issued by the Canadian government in years past confirm the American claim to the region in dispute, but the correspondence of the British negotiator of the treaty of 1825 shows that he made every effort to secure for England an outlet to deep water through this strip of territory and failed.
— from From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by John Holladay Latané

The great fire that is kindled up is never let out, night or day, as long as the season lasts.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

The constitution was also an oligarchy, 1073 in the hands apparently of a number of Doric and Locrian families.
— from The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

i. 7. 36; 'Nec Otia divitiis Arabum liberrima muto.'
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar