And besides, we cannot find the name of Christ or Christianity mentioned in any of the contemporary histories of that era till one hundred and four years after the time fixed for Christ's birth by Christendom; Tacitus being the first writer who names either, and this was at that date. 23.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The ordinary controls of civilized life—regard for truth, regard for law, respect for neighbors, obedience to good manners, love of God—cease to operate effectively, because the propaganda-dizzy man sees in everything its propaganda content and nothing else.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The acquisition of definiteness and of coherency (or constancy) of meanings is derived primarily from practical activities.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

While they are made to depict the motives and passions of men, they retain, in an eminent degree, their own special features of craft or counsel, of cowardice or courage, of generosity or rapacity.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Temperance, I replied, is the ordering or controlling of certain pleasures and desires; this is curiously enough implied in the saying of 'a man being his own master;' and other traces of the same notion may be found in language.
— from The Republic by Plato

Whenever she hears a noise in the street, or sees people coming towards the house, she always jumps to the conclusion that they are either thieves, or drunkards, or snakes, or tigers, or malaria or cockroaches, or caterpillars, or an English sailor.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Coventry was one of those towns in which the privilege of practising most trades was anciently confined to certain privileged persons, as the freemen, &c. Hence a stranger stood little chance of custom, or countenance, and “to send a man to COVENTRY ,” came to be equivalent to putting him out of the pale of society.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

And because I have here before spoken of the bread carts coming from Stratford at the Bow, ye shall understand that of old time the bakers of bread at Stratford were allowed to bring daily (except the Sabbath and principal feasts) divers long carts laden with bread, the same being two ounces in the penny wheat loaf heavier than the penny wheat loaf baked in the city, the same to be sold in Cheape, three or four carts standing there, between Gutheron’s lane and Fauster’s lane end, one cart on Cornhill, by the conduit, and one other in Grasse street.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It is said that not to defend yourself is to show courage, and this may, indeed, be a kind of nobility, a disgust at the accusation, or certainty of innocence, but frequently it is mere incapacity to speak, and inexperienced judges may regard it as an expression of cunning or conviction.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Special reasons, of course, one cannot go into fully, though there are some features of them that may be mentioned; to Esther she stated an abundantly sufficient one,—“I am almost sure there are chambers in my heart that he could not unlock.”
— from Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary by Daniel Dulany Addison

It is curious to note this transference of power viewed in the light of our case of coins.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel

The Red Cross carefully avoided the role of critic or censor, and sought to conform to the wishes of commanders and surgeons, while watchfully providing for the needs of the sick, as ascertained by independent investigation.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

This program may lead to the use of chloroplasts or chlorophyll without cells in future photosynthetic bioregenerative systems for long-term space travel.
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

“The Tragical Death of Conla (or Conlaech), Son of Aiffe.”
— from Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster by Eleanor Hull

How Gómez de Tordoya and other citizens of Cuzco agreed to send messengers to the captain Pero Alvarez Holguin that, on knowing of the death of the Marquis, he should raise the banner for the King.
— from The War of Chupas by Pedro de Cieza de León

She has done fine work as a leader in her own city of Chicago, but neither Chicago, nor even Illinois, can claim her when the nation calls.
— from The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry

More living men cherish his memory to-day than have ever heard the names of Constantine or Charlemagne.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"Of course, of course, but it would be useless.
— from Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley