” “Oh, yes,” he cried, “that was my only prayer at last; I no longer begged for liberty, but memory; I dreaded to become mad and forgetful.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

How much is comprehended in that manly, yet respectful sentence: “If he accepts our services, then he is our prince and leader; if not, but our equal, and we again his brothers, claimants of and laying claim to the soil.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But though many people have made a little money by insurance, very few have made a great fortune; and, from this consideration alone, it seems evident enough that the ordinary balance of profit and loss is not more advantageous in this than in other common trades, by which so many people make fortunes.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But when his first efforts had failed, and further exertions were found inevitably necessary, it became of consequence to render the enterprise popular, by showing that the measures which led to it were founded on policy at least, if not upon moral justice.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

26. Let the part of thy soul which leads and governs be undisturbed by the movements in the flesh, whether of pleasure or of pain; and let it not unite with them, but let it circumscribe itself and limit those affects to their parts.
— from Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

But the nature of a lawyer's employment, even if he combine with it the kindred one of politics and legislation, is not apt to invest his home with that attraction to the stranger which the home of the literary man possesses.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

Their existence, so far as we can form any judgment, would seem to be inconsistent with the physical constitution of our planet at least, if not of the universe.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The motif of the drama is one that voices the thought and feeling of our far-off age, in which many men again vainly thresh the old arguments of conventional theology, in trying to solve the "godless look of earth," and take refuge anew in the manifestations of power and law in nature; not without the ancient lesson, let us trust, of an awe which silences and purifies, and leaves them in the light as of a mystery of meaning on the sphynx's face, breaking into the dawning of a day which "uttereth speech.
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton

Likewise, durable material agents and sources of power are limited in number and vary in convenience of location and efficiency.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

" Marcus Aurelius says: "Let the part of thy soul which leads and governs be undisturbed by the movements in the flesh, whether of pleasure or pain; and let it not unite itself with them, but let it circumscribe itself, and limit those effects to their parts."
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

Considered in this light, that audience, whose fiat is essential to the poet's claim, whether his object be fame or profit, has surely a right to expect some deference to its opinion, from principles of politeness at least, if not from gratitude.
— from The Rivals: A Comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For two months from the third week in October, the Court was temporarily installed at Wilton, the residence of William Herbert, third earl of Pembroke, and late in November the company was summoned by the royal officers page
— from A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir