Anaxagoras, when he was at the point of death at Lampsacus, and was asked by his friends, whether, if anything should happen to him, he would not choose to be carried to Clazomenæ, his country, made this excellent answer, “There is,” says he, “no occasion for that, for all places are at an equal distance from the infernal regions.”
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of which, though I was in my mind glad, yet thought it not fit to let my father know it thoroughly, but after he had gone out to visit my uncle Thomas and brought him to dinner with him, and after dinner I got my father, brother Tom, and myself together, I did make the business worse to them, and did promise L20 out of my own purse to make it L50 a year to my father, propounding that Stortlow may be sold to pay L200 for his satisfaction therein and the rest to go towards payment of debts and legacies.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To act from principle in such an emergency is not to act on some abstract principle, or duty at large; it is to act upon the principle of a course of action, instead of upon the circumstances which have attended it.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I am inclined to suspect, from certain data, that the ultimate philosophy of difference and likeness will have to be built upon experiences of intoxication, especially by nitrous oxide gas, which lets us into intuitions the subtlety whereof is denied to the waking state.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

With the picture of Dives and Lazarus presented elsewhere ( vol. i. p. 281 ) may be instructively compared the accompanying scene of a rich man’s death-bed ( Fig. 24 ), taken from ‘Ars Moriendi,’ one of the early block-books.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

This entertainment May a free face put on; derive a liberty From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, And well become the agent.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Characteristics of the wars from 1739 to 1783 254 Neglect of the navy by French government 254 Colonial possessions of the French, English, and Spaniards 255 Dupleix and La Bourdonnais in India 258 Condition of the contending navies 259 Expeditions of Vernon and Anson 261 Outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession 262 England allies herself to Austria 262 Naval affairs in the Mediterranean 263 Influence of Sea Power on the war 264 Naval battle off Toulon, 1744 265 Causes of English failure 267 Courts-martial following the action 268 Inefficient action of English navy 269 Capture of Louisburg by New England colonists, 1745 269 Causes which concurred to neutralize England's Sea Power 269 France overruns Belgium and invades Holland 270 Naval actions of Anson and Hawke 271 Brilliant defence of Commodore l'Étenduère 272 Projects of Dupleix and La Bourdonnais in the East Indies 273 Influence of Sea Power in Indian affairs 275 La Bourdonnais reduces Madras
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Thence to the Temple, where my cozen Roger Pepys did show me a letter my Father wrote to him last Terme to shew me, proposing such things about Sturtlow and a portion for Pall, and I know not what, that vexes me to see him plotting how to put me to trouble and charge, and not thinking to pay our debts and legacys, but I will write him a letter will persuade him to be wiser.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In other words, the standards of the law are external standards, and, however much it may take moral considerations into account, it does so only for the purpose of drawing a line between such bodily motions and rests as it permits, and such as it does not.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

They sacrificed the pleasures of dress and luxury; and renounced, for the praise of chastity, the soft endearments of conjugal society.
— 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

The seeming harmony and peace of the grey fold of houses about their placid harbor had concealed possibilities of debasement as low as California's worst camps.
— from The Dark Fleece by Joseph Hergesheimer

The genus as a whole is characterised by the small or moderate size, the sandy coloration with white belly, the presence of dark and light stripes on the face and on the flanks.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

[3] to a position of dominance, and leaving the work to be done by the rest of the women.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mr. Rainy, the master, and myself, were, I think, in better health than the rest; but I could not walk without being supported; and for several days, with the best and most comfortable provisions of diet and lodgings, we grew rather worse than better."
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

How deeply Goethe had penetrated into their character by these philosophic studies of the “construction and reconstruction of organic natures,” and how far, therefore, he must be considered the most important precursor of Darwin and Lamarck, [12] may be gathered from the interesting passages from his works which I have collected in the fourth chapter of my Natural History of Creation .
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

It is beautifully situated in a fair country, with the softness of detail common to the better parts of Devonshire, and looking out towards that block of Cornish moorland {179} THE TAMAR, COTEHELE, CORNWALL which appears like an outline of Dartmoor, and in the person of Brown Willy rises to something like its height.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

The principles of democracy and liberty are frankly and utterly his principles. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

However, as men and women frequently passed on donkeys and little ponies, we were not too proud to be set right by them, and by dint of diligent inquiry we at length arrived at Pitiegua, four leagues from Salamanca, a small village, containing about fifty families, consisting of mud huts, and situated in the midst of dusty plains, where corn was growing in abundance.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

“By the bye,” he remarked, “we had the pleasure of directing a lady in distress to your house this morning.”
— from The Moving Finger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

A member of The Mother Church shall not, under pardonable circumstances, sue his patient for recovery of payment for said member's practice, on penalty of discipline and liability to have his name removed from membership.
— from Manual of the Mother Church The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts by Mary Baker Eddy