In love no other crime but want of honesty seems to me possible: one should be scrupulous as to the state of one's heart.
— from On Love by Stendhal

[490] Compare what is said of the principle of Similarity by F. H. Bradley, Principles of Logic, pp. 294 ff.; E. Rabier, Psychologie, 187 ff.; Paulhan, Critique Philosophique, 2me Série, i, 458; Rabier, ibid.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This immovability of face, and the habit of taking a pinch of snuff before he gave an answer, made him trebly oracular to Mr. Tulliver.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The popular accounts which we have of religious revivals do not at first suggest any very definite relations, either psychological or sociological, between them and the literary revivals to which reference has just been made.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Had the people of Spain been free to criticise the Spaniards’ way of waiting to do things until it is too late, Page 3 that nation, at one time the largest and richest empire in the world, would probably have been saved from its loss of territory and its present impoverished condition.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

The roots of Plantain, and Pellitory of Spain, beaten into powder, and put into the hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

" H2 anchor From The Easinesse Of The Doctrine: The third Argument is, from those places of Scripture, by which all the Faith required to Salvation is declared to be Easie.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He had a plateful of something brought up to him.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If then I know myself only through myself, it is contradictory to require any other predicate of self, but that of self-consciousness.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a short cut, leading out of the right-hand bank about half a mile above Marsh Lock, and is well worth taking, being a pretty, shady little piece of stream, besides saving nearly half a mile of distance.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

I added to my question the obligatory accompaniment of a piece of silver; but to my amazement the old tailor pushed my hand away, saying: "That would be robbery, for I don't know where she is.—They want me to make a child's jacket out of this thing, and I couldn't make one gaiter!"
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

But this design, truly most beautiful and excellently well considered in every part, which is now in the possession of the heirs of Luigi Brugnuoli, Michele's nephew, was not carried completely into execution by certain persons, by reason of their little judgment and poverty of spirit, but much restricted, curtailed, and reduced to mean proportions by those persons, who used the authority that they had received in the matter from the public in disfiguring the work, in consequence of the untimely death of some gentlemen who were in charge of it at the beginning, and who had a greatness of spirit equal to their nobility of blood.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma by Giorgio Vasari

10 “History of Polybius, the five first bookes entire, with all the parcels of subsequent bookes unto the eighteenth, according to the Greeke original.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

As I told you before, she loves you, but it is for yourself, not for herself,—a sentiment that few women are able to conceive and practise; few among them know the voluptuous pleasure of sufferings born of longing,—that is one of the magnificent passions reserved for man.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

All post offices in the kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council are appointed to be Receiving Offices of the Post Office Savings Bank, and have daily during the prescribed hours to carry out the Post Office Savings Bank Service.
— from Social Comptabilism The Cheque and Clearing Service in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. Proposed Law laid before the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium by Hector Denis

There a party of soldiers belonging to the fleet waited for them, and broke their bones with poles and oars, lest they should have any life left in them.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Suetonius

A criticism to which the highly gifted lay themselves open from those who do not understand them, is their love of praise, the critics failing to grasp the fact that this passion for measuring one’s self with others, like the gad-fly pursuing poor Io, never allows a moment’s repose in the green pastures of success, but goads them constantly up the rocky sides of endeavor.
— from Worldly Ways & Byways by Eliot Gregory

It was not attempted, in the article referred to, to disprove the phenomena of spiritualism by the above mode of reasoning, but simply to deny and disprove the intervention of the supernatural in their origin—to show, in fact, that disembodied spirit can by no possibility have anything to do with their production.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various