In cities the choice of animals which can become the object of phobia is not great.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

To have respect of persons is not good; for, for a piece of bread, that man will transgress.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The [3272] Greeks had their Olympian, Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean games, in honour of Neptune, Jupiter, Apollo; Athens hers: some for honour, garlands, crowns; for [3273] beauty, dancing, running, leaping, like our silver games.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

That, however, which is present in this or that place, or any operation going on, or result taking place in the things themselves, with the exception of change of place, is not given to us by intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I yet flatter myself some day or other I shall have it in my power to show some mark of my affection to the best of parents; if not: God's will be done.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

In fact, about the only place I never got to was the Fortunate Island.”
— from The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame

"Thank Heaven, however, that the age of poetry is not gone too; for poetry, you know, is but the shadow or reflection of chivalry—heroism—and action!
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers

20:028:021 To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 20: Proverbs by Anonymous

I believe it is estimated that about ten times the amount of power is nowadays given to the working of every acre of land that it was possible to apply in former times."
— from Equality by Edward Bellamy

Atlanta itself is only of strategic value as long as it is a railroad centre; and as all the railroads leading to it are destroyed, as well as all its foundries, machine shops, warehouses, depots, &c., it is of no more value than any other point in North Georgia; whereas the line of the Etowah, by reasons of its rivers and natural features, possesses an importance which will always continue.
— from Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

Its communication overland with other places is not good, and the hilly character of the contiguous land presents great difficulties in the way of the formation of roads.
— from Brighter Britain! (Volume 2 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by W. Delisle (William Delisle) Hay

It is curious to observe in some of these flowers that the total number of parts is not greatly increased; thus, in some of the double-flowered Leguminosæ , such as Ulex europæus and Lotus corniculatus , the petals are repeated once or twice, the stamens are petalodic, but reduced in number, while the carpels are usually entirely wanting.
— from Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) Masters