In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Erik said: "The service of kin is best for the helpless.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Not to be a philosopher is even an advantage for a man of science, because he is then more willing to adapt his methods to the state of knowledge in his particular subject, without insisting on ultimate intelligibility; and he has perhaps more joy of his discoveries than he might have if he had discounted them in his speculations.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Next day I started for Lodi at day-break without telling anybody where I was going, and bought all the books I judged necessary for Clementine, who only knew Italian.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There is at any time a sufficient amount of kindly impulses possessed by man to enable him to live in amicable peace with all his fellows; and there is at any time a sufficient equipment of bellicose impulses to keep him in trouble with his fellows.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Send home my harmlesse heart againe, 10 Which no unworthy thought could staine; But if it be taught by thine To make jestings Of protestings, And crosse both 15 Word and oath, Keepe it, for then 'tis none of mine.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

That of Ahaz mentioned in the Second Book of Kings is the earliest dial of which we have record.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

A certain affectation of æstheticism clung to her since her liaison with the poet-painter Adolphus Jeckyll, a disciple in poetry of Keats, in painting of Holman Hunt; a composer of obscure sonnets, a painter of subjects from the Vita Nuova .
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

One knows instinctively when a man will be good to the woman he has married; it is in his voice, his manner, in the very way he looks at her.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

1. Lady .—Nay, Madam, I do not tell this part of my own knowledge; I only heard so, but I am afraid there is too much in it.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

As Carrington went off jingling a bunch of keys in his hand, Jack could feel the man whom we will now call Seymour fairly trembling with excitement.
— from The Yellow Face by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

It is said that the style now called "Oysters Kirkpatrick," is but a variant of Manning's "Oyster Salt Roast."
— from Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar) Edwords

We were thin, footsore, our legs torn, our kit in rags; but what [Pg 160] mattered that?
— from Camp Fire Yarns of the Lost Legion by G. Hamilton-Browne

She may have wept—for there is sorrow without sin; may have wept even at her prayers—for there is penitence free from guilt, and innocence itself often kneels in contrition.
— from Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 1 by John Wilson

I mai o Waka, "Apopo, ma ka puka ana o ka la, oia ka wa e a-u ai o Kekalukaluokewa i ka heenalu oia wale, ia manawa, e hoouhi aku ai wau i ka noe maluna o ka aina a puni o Puna nei, a maloko oia noe, e hoouna aku no wau
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

I for my part noticed by the sense of sight, before I entered your Kingdom, that some of your people are lines and others Points; and that some of the lines are larger—" "You speak of an impossibility," interrupted the King; "you must have seen a vision; for to detect the difference between a Line and a Point by the sense of sight is, as every one knows, in the nature of things, impossible; but it can be detected by the sense of hearing, and by the same means my shape can be exactly ascertained.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott