One must never smoke a pipe in the streets; one must never smoke at all in the coffee-room of a hotel.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

" "Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states the others are able to quell it.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

But the affections of hope, fear, joy, wrath, scorn, are put in play by them, alternating every moment; and they are so vivid that by them, as by a kind of internal motion, all the vital processes of the body seem to be promoted, as is shown by the mental vivacity excited by them, although nothing is gained or learnt thereby.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But the saints and prophets in the window-tracery, the paintings in the galleries, the statues, the busts, the gargoyles, the corbel-heads—these seemed to breathe his atmosphere.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Despotism is that principle in pursuance of which the state arbitrarily puts into effect laws which it has itself made: consequently it is the administration of the public will, but this is identical with the private will of the ruler.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

To Latinise a pun, we must seek a pun in Latin, that will answer to it; as, to give an idea of the double endings in Hudibras, we must have recourse to a similar practice in the old monkish doggrel.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

As it was punishable to combine for such a purpose, it was concluded, with some hesitation, that, when a single individual wickedly attempted the same thing, he should be liable on similar grounds.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

On fully considering the subject, I must decline doing so, because such a petition I deem to be quite premature.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

To pursue a somewhat audacious parallel, in a love of power, in an eager grasp after supremacy, M. Emanuel was like Bonaparte.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

With his sudden and, perhaps, involuntary movement, every appearance of surprise or alarm ended.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

In fine, one act of true humility in the sight of God is of more worth than all the knowledge, sacred and profane, in the whole world.
— from Santa Teresa: An Appreciation With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte

So,” concluded this resistless pleader, carefully gathering up the spoil and putting it into my hands, “I have gained my cause, and have now only to thank my most impartial judge for his patient hearing.”
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

Time shall accomplish that; and I shall see A Palamon in him, in you an Emily.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

Fish is sun-dried on scaffolds, and by some tribes on the lower Columbia 266 is also pulverized between two stones and packed in baskets lined with fish-skin.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Dear Sir, "Although it is long since I have had the pleasure of seeing or corresponding with you, still I have not forgot there is such a person in being, and now embrace the kind offer you once made me, in offering to take charge of my son Joseph, whom I certainly should at that time have sent out, had it not been that there was apparently a jealousy subsisting between the British and Americans; however, I hope it is not yet too late.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

In the regions we call Nature, towering beyond all measurement, with infinite spread, infinite depth and height—in those regions, including Man, socially and historically, with his moral-emotional influences—how small a part, (it came in my mind to-day,) has literature really depicted—even summing up all of it, all ages.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For I saw indeed there was cause of rejoicing for those that held to Jesus; but as for me, I had cut myself off by my transgressions, and left myself neither foot-hold, nor hand-hold, amongst all the stays and props in the precious word of life.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

As far as she could she sought to keep alive within her all kinds of softening and pleasant influences.
— from Brought Home by Hesba Stretton