By this time we should know that nothing is moral that does not tend to the well-being of sentient beings; that nothing is virtuous the result of which is not good.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

In the remarkable letter (of April, 1722) from which I have quoted the anecdote of the lost fish, he says that, “all my endeavours from a boy to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter; and so the reputation of wit or great learning does the office of a blue riband or of a coach and six horses.”
— from Swift by Leslie Stephen

[ 127 ] The doctrine here laid down will be more readily understood, if we reflect on what is now going on in the Mediterranean.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

If on a lake shore, where the rise of water is never great, the beaver's house is four or five feet high.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

2. Hidden laws, i. e. , laws, the reason of which is not given.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

"All my endeavors to distinguish myself," he wrote to Bolingbroke, "were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter."
— from Genius in Sunshine and Shadow by Maturin Murray Ballou

Between the shady Passeio Publico behind the Monroe Palace and the heroic statue of Cabral on the green Largo da Gloria, the foothills crowd in so closely that there is room for only one street to pass, and right of way is naturally given to the chief pride of the city.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

[pg 475] He says as much himself in one of his letters to Bolingbroke:— “All my endeavours to distinguish myself were only for want of a great title and fortune, that I might be used like a lord by those who have an opinion of my parts; whether right or wrong is no great matter.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray