Private ownership of land, tools, and raw materials may at one stage of economic development be a method of stimulating production and one which does not greatly interfere with equitable distribution.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

On the evening of the 26th August, six weeks after the establishment at Yedo of the British and American Representatives, an officer and a seaman belonging to a Russian man-of-war were cut to pieces in the streets of Yokohama, where they had landed to buy provisions.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

See The Ancient Religion, M.E., pp.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I was affected to tears and redoubled my attentions.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

There is, there can be, but one true basis, viz.: that taxation and representation must be inseparable; hence our demand must now go beyond woman—it must extend to the farthest limit of the principle of the "consent of the governed," as the only authorized or just government.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

This Accident roused me into a Disdain against all Libertine Women, under what Appearance soever they hid their Insincerity, and I resolved after that Time to converse with none but those who lived within the Rules of Decency and Honour.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Frank found that all Reddy meant to do was to hang the two elk up, after they had cut some choice portions for immediate use.
— from The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness by Quincy Allen

Just incidentally noticing the circumstance that the epoch we are describing witnessed the evolution of algebra, a comparatively abstract division of mathematics, by the union of its less abstract divisions, geometry and arithmetic (a fact proved by the earliest extant samples of algebra, which are half algebraic, half geometric) we go on to observe that during the era in which mathematics and astronomy were thus advancing, rational mechanics made its second step; and something was done towards giving a quantitative form to hydrostatics, optics, and acoustics.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

It is a fine and true saying of Bacon, that reading makes a full man, talking a ready man, and writing an exact man.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Now and then a rich man comes, and I presently got acquainted with one of these.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

There was, then, a Reformation movement which in its earliest beginnings and in its final outcome was quite
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

I wish to come down eighteen hundred years later and refer to a remark made by one of the Latin historians.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

360 Yet after all, to disparage eloquence is to depreciate mankind; and when men say that Mr. Gladstone and Midlothian were no better than a resplendent mistake, they forget how many objects of our reverence stand condemned by implication in their verdict; they have not thought out how many of the faiths and principles that have been the brightest lamps in the track of human advance they are extinguishing by the same unkind and freezing breath.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

There can be no question that it powerfully furthered alike the deistic and the Unitarian movements in England from the year of its appearance; and, though the States-General felt bound formally to prohibit it on the issue of the second edition in 1674, its effect in Holland was probably as great as elsewhere: at least there seems to have gone on there from this time a rapid modification of the old orthodoxy.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson