I have also gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of much assistance and encouragement from Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and from Dr. J. D. Comrie, first lecturer on the History of Medicine at Edinburgh University.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them, but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius Posthumus: “In studio rei amplificandæ apparebat, non avaritiæ prædam, sed instrumentum bonitati quæri.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

He will then start with objects really perceived by the subject, and will endeavour to make the perception of these objects more and more indefinite; then, step by step, he will bring out of this state of mental chaos the precise form of the object of which he wishes to create an hallucination.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Perhaps you have seen impious men growing old and leaving their children's children in high offices, and their prosperity shakes your faith—you have known or heard or been yourself an eyewitness of many monstrous impieties, and have beheld men by such criminal means from small beginnings attaining to sovereignty and the pinnacle of greatness; and considering all these things you do not like to accuse the Gods of them, because they are your relatives; and so from some want of reasoning power, and also from an unwillingness to find fault with them, you have come to believe that they exist indeed, but have no thought or care of human things.
— from Laws by Plato

But——" "Ah!" cried the Captain, bitterly, "there is a 'but.'" "In this case there is a sad want of rallying power.
— from Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Whither roves the tuneful swain Who of rural pleasures, Rose and vi'let, rill and plain, Sung in deftest measures?
— from Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 by Edward Ziegler Davis

There is a similar way of ripening pomegranates: put the fruit, while it is still green and attached to its branch, in a pot without a bottom, bury this in the earth and scrape the soil around the protruding branch so as to keep out the air, and when the pomegranates are dug up they will be found to be not only intact but larger than if they had hung all the time on the tree.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

VI THE SAADIANS Meanwhile, behind all the Berber turmoil a secret work of religious propaganda was going on.
— from In Morocco by Edith Wharton

Above stairs are the sleeping and store rooms, the divisions between which often consist of slight walls of reeds, plastered over and whitewashed.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

A thing that begins in a small way on right principles, a thing that "hath the seed in itself," is bound to succeed.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

There are several ways of reviving persons apparently drowned.
— from Scouting for Girls Adapted from Girl Guiding by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

His suit was of royal purple, embroidered richly by Kriemhild’s loving fingers, and his spear shone bright in the sunlight as he galloped along, light-hearted and unsuspicious of the black thoughts which were harboured in Hagen’s wicked heart.
— from Stories from Northern Myths by Emilie K. (Emilie Kip) Baker