For such general and yet definite principles are not easily learned from other men, who have had them obscurely in their minds.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Thus, instead of believing that I would better understand my own organisation, and then my own knowing and willing, and my movements following upon motives, if I could only refer them to movements due to electrical, chemical, and mechanical causes, I must, seeing that I seek philosophy and not etiology, learn to understand from my own movements following upon motives the inner nature of the simplest and commonest movements of an unorganised body which I see following upon causes.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Supper Table The table is set, as to places and napery, exactly like the lunch table, with the addition of candlesticks or candelabra as at dinner.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[ In the conspiracy of Piso against Nero, Epicharis (libertina mulier) was the only person tortured; the rest were intacti tormentis.
— 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

This is one of the mysteries of Providence and New England life.
— from The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1 by Charles Dudley Warner

THE DAY AFTER DEATH THE DAY AFTER DEATH OR Our Future Life according to Science TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF LOUIS FIGUIER ILLUSTRATED BY TEN ASTRONOMICAL PLATES A NEW EDITION London MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited NEW YORK:
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

The sensations thoughts, emotions, &c., of one person are not exactly like those of another.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

Here, then, you have the fruit and the reward, that whoever observes this commandment shall have happy days, fortune, and prosperity; and on the other hand, the punishment, that whoever is disobedient shall the sooner perish, and never enjoy life.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

For this is provided with no callosities, such as are possessed by many of the lower apes, and even by the Gibbons; and those bones of the pelvis, which are termed the ischia, and which form the solid framework of the surface on which the body rests in the sitting posture, are not expanded like those of the apes which possess callosities, but are more like those of man.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Children of the same parents are never exactly like either their parents or one another, and they often differ amazingly from both.
— from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell

That image is now in my possession, and no extremity less urgent than that under which it was sold to Silas Pomeroy, of Myrtle Street, Springfield, will ever induce me to part with it.
— from The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by John Charles Dent

The meridian of the Antipodes has likewise been passed; and now every league, it made us happy to think, was one league nearer to England.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

The great majority now, perhaps, are not entirely light-minded, but they are less serious, more noisily determined to do what they want, and get what they can both out of men and out of life.
— from Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley