It follows from this that a man is best off if he be thrown upon his own resources and can be all in all to himself; and Cicero goes so far as to say that a man who is in this condition cannot fail to be very happy— nemo potest non beatissimus esse qui est totus aptus ex sese, quique in se uno ponit omnia.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

He wrote Comic History of England , Comic History of Rome , and Comic Blackstone , and between fifty and sixty plays.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

He is thought moreover to be a braggart, and to advance unfounded claims to the character of Brave: the relation which the Brave man really bears to objects of fear this man wishes to appear to bear, and so imitates him in whatever points he can; for this reason most of them exhibit a curious mixture of rashness and cowardice; because, affecting rashness in these circumstances, they do not withstand what is truly fearful. III6 a ] The man moreover who exceeds in feeling fear is a coward, since there attach to him the circumstances of fearing wrong objects, in wrong ways, and so forth.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Note 5 ( return ) [ These provinces of the Greek idiom and empire are assigned to the Bulgarian kingdom in the dispute of ecclesiastical jurisdiction between the patriarchs of Rome and Constantinople, (Baronius, Annal.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

These wands or rods are carried by all Egyptians, of every rank, as constant companions; but their value and beauty are regulated by the position and wealth of the person,—those of nobles being tipped with gold, while ivory, ebony, palm-wood, and common woods, are the materials of which others are made.
— from The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Purchases of “rare and curious books” at prices per volume from three pounds upwards are rarely made casually over the counter.
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

By riding, however, I do not mean sticking on a horse, by dint of rein and clinging, but a seat in which the fair one feels secure and entirely at her ease.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

and when I saw him the last time I was in Paris, his head—a declaration of righteousness, a cross between a Cæsar by Gerome, and an archbishop of a provincial town, set all my natural antipathy instantly on edge.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

A mystery in its own right, and by the necessity and essential character of its subject—(for the Will, like the Life, in every act and product pre-supposes to itself, a Past always present, a Present that evermore resolves itself into a Past)—the doctrine of Original Sin gives to all the other mysteries of religion a common basis, a connection of dependency, an intelligibility of relation, and total harmony, that supersede extrinsic proof.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

She's left an orphan, rich as can be, and she asks Violet to live with her.
— from Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by Anna Chapin Ray

For no one will pretend that the military predilections of Russia are caused by a low state of morals, or by a disregard of religious duties.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

They have caught and dressed some three score of small brook trout, which they deposit beside the shanty, and proceed at once to move on the fire, with evident intent of raising a conflagration, but are checked by the O. W., who calls their attention to the fact that for all culinary purposes, the fire is about as near the right thing as they are likely to get it.
— from Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears