Friends of analysis have advised us to counterbalance such a collection of failures by means of a statistical compilation on our part of our successful cases.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The next adjoining to Coleman street, on the west side thereof, is Bassings hall ward, a small thing, and consisteth of one street called Bassings hall street, of Bassings hall, the most principal house whereof the ward taketh name.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

There are some people whose motive, either supposed or alleged, for keeping their property is this, that they may never be driven to do anything dishonourable: to this class belongs the skinflint, and every one of similar character, so named from the excess of not-giving.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The complex ideas we have of substances are, as it has been shown, certain collections of simple ideas that have been observed or supposed constantly to exist together.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

‘It’s tolerably clear to me ,’ said Bounderby, ‘that the little puss can get small good out of such companionship.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

But it is sufficient for our purpose that you acknowledge that the intellectual soul, that is, our mind, cannot be justified by theurgy; and that even the spiritual or inferior part of our soul cannot by this act be made eternal and immortal, though you maintain that it can be purified by it.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He had come down to look at his child in the sun; but he walked softly, on the chance of overhearing Sir Charles and Lady Bassett say something or other about his health; his design went no further than that, but the fate of listeners is proverbial.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

For Burlington in Pensilvania we have an account, that the owners of several Cattle believing them to be bewitch’d, caused some suspected men and women to be taken up, and trials to be made for detecting them.
— from The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1731 Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer by Various

But if instead of using their victory to eliminate force, they in their turn pin their faith to it, continue to use it the one against the other, exploiting by its means the populations they rule, and become not the organisers of social co-operation among the Balkan populations, but merely, like the Turks, their conquerors and "owners," then they in their turn will share the fate of the Turk.
— from Peace Theories and the Balkan War by Norman Angell

The banner was orange satin on one side, crimson silk on the other, the pelican and brood embroidered in pale green and gold.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

The silver question, thorny as it was, fell into relations as simple as words of one syllable, compared with the problems of credit and exchange that came to complicate it; and when one sought rest at Chicago, educational game started like rabbits from every building, and ran out of sight among thousands of its kind before one could mark its burrow.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

But the sojourn at the hills also brought the foreigner into occasional contact with Chinese of high rank, who welcomed such opportunities of showing civility to the strangers.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 2 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie