The problem is not exactly simple: a man must have experienced both through his strength and through his weakness, If illness and weakness are to be charged with anything at all, it is with the fact that when they prevail, the very instinct of recovery, which is the instinct of defence and of war in man, becomes decayed.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Cossura (the island Pantellaria) is nowhere else spelt Corsura; Cossuros is the spelling observed immediately below.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

; on the contrary, the early habit of relying almost implicitly on the opinion of a respected parent is not easily shaken, even when matured reason convinces the child that his father is not the wisest man in the world.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Much might be said on the unexpected and instructive fact, that an alleged new revelation, and a religion founded [Pg 173] on it, the product of palpable imposture, not even supported by the prestige of extraordinary qualities in its founder, is believed by hundreds of thousands, and has been made the foundation of a society, in the age of newspapers, railways, and the electric telegraph.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

“A pistole is not enough,” said D’Artagnan, “‘tis worth a louis.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Note particularly “Isaac Newton, Esq.,” Sir Christopher Wren and a few more names famous to this day.}
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

This people is not eminent solely by their antiquity, but is also singular by their duration, which has always continued from their origin till now.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Where this school of public spirit does not exist, scarcely any sense is entertained that private persons, in no eminent social situation, owe any duties to society except to obey the laws and submit to the government.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

But a panic is not easily shaken off, nor is any fear so difficult to combat and defeat as the fear of the invisible.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

For generations we have had homilies on "The Yoke of Christ," some delighting in portraying its narrow exactions; some seeking in these exactions the marks of its divinity; others apologising for it, and toning it down; still others assuring us that, although it be very bad, it is not to be compared with the positive blessings of Christianity.
— from Pax Vobiscum by Henry Drummond

The shares of the produce going respectively to the agricultural tenant and to the landowner, were specially under the dominion of Custom; as the mode (now decadent) of taking farms " at the halves ," once universally prevalent in New England, sufficiently shows.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

While there are many more themes that can be twisted to universal interest—and anyone could multiply the number given—these few are used in whole or in part in nearly every successful monologue now being presented.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

[20] Here, the desire to create fitting expressions of praise is not explained so much as the form in which the praises are cast.
— from The Medieval Latin Hymn by Ruth Ellis Messenger

W. Effendi's letter and Nurse Cavell's immortal words, "patriotism is not enough," strike me as the two most remarkable utterances delivered spontaneously by heroic spirits in proof of the bankruptcy of the "frightfulness" to which they were on the point of falling victims.
— from Armenia and the War by A. P. (Avetoon Pesak) Hacobian