In modern times, at least, if not in early law, such rights can be created by covenant as well [394] as by grant.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

"The thing on the blind side of the heart, On the wrong side of the door, The green plant groweth, menacing Almighty lovers in the spring; There is always a forgotten thing, And love is not secure.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

To arrive late is not only annoying to those near your seat, whom you disturb when you enter, but it is ill-bred; you will be supposed to be some one who is unable to come early, instead of appearing as a lady who is mistress of her own time.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

“I don't know that I am more liable to irresolution than other people; only there are little incidents now and then that set one speculating on what might happen in the future.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Those who took the oath and poured the libations for the Lacedaemonians were Pleistoanax, Agis, Pleistolas, Damagetis, Chionis, Metagenes, Acanthus, Daithus, Ischagoras, Philocharidas, Zeuxidas, Antippus, Tellis, Alcinadas, Empedias, Menas, and Laphilus: for the Athenians, Lampon, Isthmonicus, Nicias, Laches, Euthydemus, Procles, Pythodorus, Hagnon, Myrtilus, Thrasycles, Theagenes, Aristocrates, Iolcius, Timocrates, Leon, Lamachus, and Demosthenes.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

This at least is not the Turdus migratorius .
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

He felt it himself, and in his fear of being misunderstood he exerted himself to the utmost to make his voice soft and tender so as to convince by the sincerity of his tone at least, if not by his words.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They say, that as life is not better for being long, so death is better for being not long.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But they are limited in number, and they obtain only between excessively broad genera of concepts, and leave quite undetermined what the specifications of those genera shall be.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

An embassy sent to bring Philip to a better mind was refused all satisfaction, and Henry, seeing that his presence was necessary in France, crossed the channel for the last of many times and landed in Normandy on July 1, 1188.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

For this, at least, is now clear—that the cause which, in spite of the enormous increase of productive power, confines the great body of producers to the least share of the product upon which they will consent to live, is not the limitation of capital, nor yet the limitation of the powers of nature which respond to labor.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

Now, the Astral Light is not a universally diffused stuff, but pertains only to our earth and all other bodies of the system on the same plane of matter with it.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

His steps have been followed by a host, till at length it needed but such a case as mine to add the finishing touch to his well-earned fame.
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

The surrounding Wall , itself surrounded by an open palisade, which serves as a fence to the grounds on the other side.—Except on the side of the Approach no public path by that fence.—A Centinel's Walk between; on which no one else can set foot, without forcing the fence, and declaring himself a trespasser at least, if not an enemy.
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

The average diameter of these spirals is only about a sixteenth of an inch, and many are so small that a lens is necessary to discern their shape.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux

—Occasionally it is advisable to inclose type matter in a panel, altho in most instances the typographer will find that a letterhead is neater if no rule panel is used.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress

This is an age of co-operation, and in this at least, if not in other matters, the United States of America is in an ideal position to assume the leadership.
— from A Traveller in War-Time by Winston Churchill

This titanic personification of sea and wind is sublime, but Swinburne has many other ways of personifying wind and sea, and sometimes the element of tenderness and love is not wanting.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn