Bestial thoughts crystallize into habits of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of destitution and disease: impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and confusing habits, which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances: thoughts of fear, doubt, and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into circumstances of failure, indigence, and slavish dependence: lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary: hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence, which solidify into circumstances of injury and persecution: selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing.
— from As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

Secondly, he must have a great desire of discovering truth, from whence will arise that threefold production of the mind; one of which depends on knowing things, and explaining nature; the other, in defining what we ought to desire and what to avoid; the third, in judging of consequences and impossibilities, in which consists both subtlety in disputing and also clearness of judgment.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is what is meant when society is described as a collectivity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Capivaccius sets it down as a common fault of all melancholy persons to say their symptoms are greater than they are, to help themselves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I have set forth in the first section in detail and as clearly as possible the testimony communicated to me by living Celts who either believe in fairies, or else say that they have seen fairies; and throughout other sections I have preferred to draw as much as possible of the material from men and women rather than from books.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

92 [ 168 ] The next specimen is described as a “charm for fascinating” (striking fear into) a “tiger and hardening one’s own heart”:— “O Earth-Shaker, rumble and quake!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The mind has succeeded in discovering an attribute common to two dissimilar figures; and it is this discovery which may lead to a series of conclusions by means of which the theorem of Pythagoras will be finally demonstrated.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

In the fourth section of the “Historical Account of the Constitution of the United Brethren at Gnaden, 1823,” the society is described as “a company of living members of the invisible body of Jesus Christ;” and in its litany for Easter morning, it adds as a fourth particular to the article of the creed: “I believe that our brothers N. N. , and our sisters N. N. have joined the church above, and have entered into the joy of the Lord.”
— from Church History, Volume 3 (of 3) by J. H. (Johann Heinrich) Kurtz

He was grave in his demeanor, and somewhat taciturn; of great simplicity in dress; accommodating and courteous.
— from The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II by Various

The food is properly served in dishes, and a corporal or a man told off for the duty is at the head of each table to help each man to his allowance, for which an enamelled plate is provided.
— from The French Army from Within by Anonymous

As an auxiliary measure, small ditches and banks, or low walls of pebbles, should be constructed from the line of blocks across the grounds to be protected, nearly at right angles to the current, but slightly inclining downward, and at convenient distances from each other.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

“Well,” said Mr. Murphy reluctantly, “I suppose I do attach a certain—er—sentimental value to my ticket.”
— from Cappy Ricks; Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Even roses grow there, and the warmth of the sun is delightful as a change from the cool of the shade.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny

After hearing her story, I drew an affidavit containing her testimony, to the effect that she was swindled out of $20,000 worth of property, and left to die in poverty.
— from The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914 ... The Present Condition of the American Indian; His Political History and Other Topics; A Plea for Justice by Warren King Moorehead