If they are larger and contract the visual ray, a black colour is produced; if they are smaller and dilate it, a white.
— from Timaeus by Plato

In default of a proper pouncing implement take a small stripe of cloth, roll it up round a stick and wind a string round, and dip this into the powder.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

For morality dogmas have this value only: The man who has become virtuous from knowledge of another kind, which is presently to be considered, possesses in them a scheme or formula according to which he accounts to his own reason, for the most part fictitiously, for his non-egoistical action, the nature of which it, i.e. , he himself, does not comprehend, and with which account he has accustomed it to be content.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The most generous and gratifying letters have been received from Miss Canby by Helen's friends, a few extracts from which are given: Under date of February 24, 1892, after mentioning the order of the publication of the stories in the magazine, she writes: "All the stories were revised before publishing them in book form; additions were made to the number as first published, I think, and some of the titles may have been changed.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Disposing of all matters then pending, I took a steamboat to Cairo, the cars thence to Louisville and Nashville, reaching that place on the 17th of March, 1864.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Such is the sincere desire of my heart; and I ask of God to [141] guide my pen in truth and sincerity, that I may be kept from all self-seeking, into which the necessity of speaking of myself might betray me.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

[200] It must be remembered that as soon as a woman has left her father's roof and passes under the care of her husband—or rather of her husband's parents, if they are still alive—her father's family have no longer any legal control over her.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

"Oh," Conseil put in, "there are some people so unintelligent by nature . . ."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

In their secret examination of prisoners, they had reduced the system of provocative interrogation to a science.
— from The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

Plan of the Universe emanated from Deity, was of Himself, though not His Very Self, 764-m. Planetary motive force a mechanical law, so considered now, 671-m. Planetary spheres represented by the seven steps of the Mystic Ladder, 851-l. Planets distinguished by a cross and solar or lunar symbols, 505-l. Planets, numbers and motions of the, 233-m. Planets, seven, 10-m. Plato, commentator of Timaeus, wrote of the Soul of the World, 667-u. Plato's Deity the essence of Goodness, "The Good" itself, 682-l. Plato declares absolute truth is in God; it is God under one of His phases, 707-l. Plato developed beautifully the higher Greek religious ideas, 617-m. Plato discourses on the disfigurement of the Soul, 858-m. Plato drew his doctrines from the East and the Mysteries, 398-m. Plato expresses his idea of the love of God, 704-l. Plato, greatest of human Revealers, 100-u. Plato, in part, conceived the progressive mediation between ignorance and wisdom, 711-u. Plato in the Alexandrian School helps bring Christianity and Magic together, 731-l. Plato installed the creations of his own mind among the gods, 678-u. Plato, Masonry revives the Academy of, 221-m. Plato on the nature of the First Principle, 99-u. Plato recognizes Love as the highest and most beneficent of the Gods, 682-l.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Being rather a careless and absent-minded young man, he had no recollection of putting it there after some discussion with Sir Miles about his certificates.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

He evinced a paternal pride in the adulation she everywhere received as a woman.
— from Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century by Virginia Tatnall Peacock

He had the greatest contempt for religious revivals, and called those who took part in them a set of ignoramuses.
— from Abraham Lincoln: Was He a Christian? by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg