The only other ethical system which is powerful enough to cope with Utilitarianism and Materialism is Christianity, in comparison with which Bushido, it must be confessed, is like "a dimly burning wick" which the Messiah was proclaimed not to quench but to fan into a flame.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

She were in poor elth, and quite broke.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In the same way if Psychology enabled us to arrive at a cognition of the immortality of the soul it would make Pneumatology possible, which would be just as welcome to the speculative Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

But let every one defend his own opinion, for every one is at liberty to choose what he likes: I shall keep to my old custom; and, being under no restraint from the laws of any particular school, which in philosophy every one must necessarily confine himself to, I shall always inquire what has the most probability in every question, and this system, which I have often practised on other occasions, I have adhered closely to in my Tusculan Disputations.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Suppose," she whispered in pleased excitement—"just suppose it was the monkey who got away again.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It seems to me that if a man should snatch up a bar of red-hot iron and hold it tight in his hand to test his fortitude, and after struggling for ten seconds with insufferable pain end by overcoming it, such a man would, I fancy, go through something like what Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch was enduring during those ten seconds.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To avoid a tedious minuteness, I shall group together what I have preserved of his conversation during this period also, without specifying each scene where it passed, except one, which will be found so remarkable as certainly to deserve a very particular relation.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

[Pg 63] 221 Atheists ought to say what is perfectly evident; now it is not perfectly evident that the soul is material.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Abraham , took nothing for himself, 502 ; from stones can come children unto, 777 ; and Gideon, 821 Absolutions, without signs of regret, 903 , 904 Act, the last, is tragic, 210 Adam, compared with Christ, 551 ; his glorious state, 559 ; forma futuri , 655 Advent, the time of the first, foretold, 756 Age, influences judgment, 381 ; the six ages, 654 Alexander, the example of his chastity, 103 Amusements, dangerous to the Christian life, 11 Animals, intelligence and instinct of, 340 , 342 Antichrist, miracles of, foretold by Christ, 825 ; will speak openly against God, 842 ; miracles of, cannot lead into error, 845 Apocalyptics, extravagances of the, 650 Apostles, hypothesis that they were deceivers, 571 ; foresaw heresies, 578 ; supposition that they were either deceived or deceivers, 801 Aquinas, Thomas, 61 , 338 Arcesilaus, the sceptic, became a dogmatist, 375 Archimedes, greatness of, 792 Arians, where they go wrong, 861 Aristotle, and Plato, 331 Arius, miracles in his time, 831 Athanasius, St., 867 Atheism, shows a certain strength of mind, 225 Atheists, who seek, to be pitied, 190 ; ought to say what is perfectly evident, 221 ; objections of, against the Resurrection and the Virgin Birth, 222 , 223 ; objection of, 228 Augustine, St., saw that we work for an uncertainty, 234 ; on the submission of reason, 270 ; on miracles, 811 ; his authority, 868 Augustus, his saying about Herod's son, 179 Authority, in belief, 260 Authors, vanity of certain, 43 Automatism, human, 252 Babylon, rivers of, 459 Beauty, a certain standard of, 32 ; poetical, 33 Belief, three sources of, 245 ; rule of, 260 ; of simple people, 284 ; without reading the Testaments, 286 ; the Cross creates, 587 ; reasons why there is no, in the miracles, 825 Bias, leads to error, 98 Birth, noble, an advantage, 322 ; persons of high, honoured and despised, 337 Blame, and praise, 501 Blood, example of the circulation of, 96 Body, nourishment of the, 356 ; the, and its members, 475 , 476 ; infinite distance between mind and, 792 Brutes, no mutual admiration among the, 401 Cæsar, compared with Alexander and Augustus, 132 Calling, chance decides the choice of a, 97 Calvinism, error of, 776 Canonical, the heretical books prove the, 568 Carthusian monk, difference between a soldier and a, 538 Casuists, true believers have no pretext for following their laxity, 888 ; submit the decision to a corrupted reason, 906 ; cannot give assurance to a conscience in error, 908 ; allow lust to act, 913 Causes, seen by the intellect and not by the senses, 234 [Pg 292] Catholic, the, doctrine, of the Holy Sacrament, 861 Ceremonies, ordained in the Old Testament, are types, 679 Certain, nothing is, 234 Chance, according to the doctrine of chance, one should believe in God, 233 ; and work for an uncertainty, 234 ; and seek the truth, 236 ; gives rise to thoughts, 370 Chancellor, the position of the, uneral, 307 Character, the Christian, the human, and the inhuman, 532 Charity, nothing so like it as covetousness, 662 ; not a figurative precept, 664 ; the sole aim of the Scripture, 669 Charron, the divisions of, 62 Children, frightened at the face they have blackened, 88 ; of Port-Royal, 151 ; illustration of usurpation from, 295 China, History of, 592 , 593 Christianity, alone cures pride and sloth, 435 ; is strange, 536 ; consists in two points, 555 ; evidence for, 563 ; is wise and foolish, 587 Christians, few true, 256 ; without the knowledge of the prophecies and evidences, 287 ; comply with folly, 338 ; humility of, 537 ; their hope, 539 ; their happiness, 540 ; the God of, 543 Church, history of the, 857 ; the, in persecution, like a ship in a storm, 858 ; when in a good state, 860 ; has always been attacked by opposite errors, 861 ;
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

He is saturated with its puissant, elemental rhythms, and his prose has its surge and undertow.
— from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker

For their services I will pay them a salary which is perhaps equal to the half-yearly pay of a marshal or chamberlain.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"I moved to this house from far off," he added, "to be near the spot, where I pray every morning."
— from Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

They made use, upon this occasion, of a Minister of State far beyond Sir W. in Prudence, Experience, and Capacity, one, who was in the Opinion even of his Enemies, the most able Manager of Affairs of his Age.
— from Letter from Monsieur de Cros (who was an embassador at the Treaty of Nimeguen and a resident at England in K. Charles the Second's reign) to the Lord ----; being an answer to Sir Wm. Temple's memoirs concerning what passed from the year 1672 until the year 1679 by Du Cros, Simon, active 17th century

Charlotte, who came back in the first homeward journey with her sister, waited in palpitating expectation till the carriage drove up to the door a second time.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Strikes were in progress everywhere, and disorder was rampant.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish