Thus in the art of acquiring riches there are no limits, for the object of that is money and possessions; but economy has a boundary, though this has not: for acquiring riches is not the business of that, for which reason it should seem that some boundary should be set to riches, though we see the contrary to this is what is practised; for all those who get riches add to their money without end; the cause of which is the near connection of these two arts with each other, which sometimes occasions the one to change employments with the other, as getting of money is their common object: for economy requires the possession of wealth, but not on its own account but with another view, to purchase things necessary therewith; but the other procures it merely to increase it: so that some persons are confirmed in their belief, that this is the proper object of economy, and think that for this purpose money should be saved and hoarded up without end; the reason for which disposition is, that they are intent upon living, but not upon living well; and this desire being boundless in its extent, the means which they aim at for that purpose are boundless also; and those who propose to live well, often confine that to the enjoyment of the pleasures of sense; so that as this also seems to depend upon what a man has, all their care is to get money, and hence arises the other cause for this art; for as this enjoyment is excessive in its degree, they endeavour to procure means proportionate to supply it; and if they cannot do this merely by the art of dealing in money, they will endeavour to do it by other ways, and apply all their powers to a purpose they were not by nature intended for.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

I will subscribe to any thing, and seal to what thou wilt, for my deliverance.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

The Lord God can't surely take a Tatar and say he was a Christian?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It would not become me,” he said, “to apply to a simple maiden for the relief which all the learned doctors cannot give me.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Such things as these are seen in Plutarch.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Gabriel's farm had been stocked by a dealer—on the strength of Oak's promising look and character—who was receiving a percentage from the farmer till such time as the advance should be cleared off.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Then Sam said it must go all round, so they all took a slight sip.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

There was a sudden thrill, and then a stony silence.
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

I assured her that I had no doubt whatever upon that point; thus it was all settled there and then, and she has remained with me ever since.
— from To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks

The individual Arnold, the individual Tell, were units merely of the great company of authentic, unnamed heroes who smote the Austrian tyrant at Sempach and Morgarten, who triumphed against the Burgundian at Grandson, Morat, and Nancy.
— from The Lake of Lucerne by Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest) Morris

Subsequently the Governor-General seemed to awaken to a sense of the extraordinary character of this suggestion, for he wrote to General Pollock to say that he “could hardly imagine the existence of circumstances which could justify the diversion of Major-General Nott’s army from the route of Ghuznee and of Caubul, when his intention of marching by that route shall have been once clearly indicated.”—[ Lord Ellenborough to General Pollock: August 26, 1842. ]
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 3 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

When she received one letter in which her sanctity was made little of, she laid the blame on slanderous tongues, and talked about suicide.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.
— from Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The senate thereupon agreed, that ambassadors should be sent to examine into the affairs of Macedonia; and immediately a commission was given to Aulus Postumius Pg 1940 to go thither.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

For instance, the calcified or other skeletal material may tend to overspread the entire outer surface of the cell or cluster of cells, and so tend accordingly to assume some configuration comparable to that of a fluid drop or of an aggregation of drops; this, in brief, is the gist and essence of our story of the foraminiferal shell.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

"Oh! send them as they are," she answered carelessly.
— from The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim