Superconscious perceptions of truth are permanently real and changeless, while fleeting sense experiences and impressions are never more than temporarily or relatively true, and soon lose in memory all their vividness.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

There are spiritual leaders in modern Judaism who still claim that Israel's mission to the nations is spiritual, but their assertions that Israel is today fulfilling that mission are not as convincing as they might be if accompanied by more evidence.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

At this expression, Juan Velasquez rose up from his seat, and said, with much warmth, "General Narvaez, I have once previously begged of you not to allow such language in my presence against Cortes or any man of his troops.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

But there is no very good ground for supposing that a simple law is more likely to be true than a complicated law, though there is good ground for assuming a simple law in scientific practice, as a working hypothesis, if it explains the facts as well as another which is less simple.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

[1504] weakeneth their strength, saith Fuchsius, l. 2. sect., 2 c. 17 , or if they be strong or able to endure physic, yet it brings them to an ill habit, they make their bodies no better than apothecaries' shops, this and such like infirmities must needs follow.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Is there nothing more cheerful for us to contemplate than what the old pagan philosophy holds out,—man destined to live like brutes or butterflies, and pass away into the infinity of time and space, like inert matter, decomposed, absorbed, and entering into new and everlasting combination?
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, July 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

I felt her tremble, as she lay in my arms; and bending my head towards her in tender concern, I could just distinguish the murmuring of a prayer that it was easy to understand was a petition offered up in behalf of Rupert.
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

Before all, he meant to draw this conclusion: that whoever approaches a high task of life with such wavering thoughts and such logical inconsistencies, must needs suffer shipwreck.
— from Shakspere and Montaigne An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet' from Allusions in Contemporary Works by Jacob Feis

I have described Seville Cathedral and its treasures at some length in my volume on “Spanish Reformers, their Memories and Dwelling Places.” I cannot repeat here what has been said there.
— from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton

There are strange lizards in many of the walls….
— from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

X. Any such notions I think you had best bury Deep in the grave where your idol is laid: Then, from the lips of the member for Westbury, Take a sound lesson in matters of trade.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 by Various

To this no objection would have been taken had the order stopped there; unfortunately it is a virtuous vice of the French to love precision—a quality which [132] the Egyptian appreciates only when applied to the attainment of grammatical purity in the use of the Arabic language, but which, being otherwise repugnant to his spirit, is not to be found in his native dialect or everyday speech or thought, and still less in more important matters.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

Still, it is generally speaking true, that a small larynx is more often associated with a higher pitch of voice than a large larynx.
— from The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

“Not fifty miles from San Francisco, they are still living in much of their primitive simplicity and state.
— from A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton