Took equal altitudes to day and the azmuth with the Commencement of the A.M. H2 anchor [Clark, August 2, 1804] August 2nd 1804 wind from the SE G. Drewery returned with the horses & one Doe Elk the countrey thro which he passed is like what we See from the Bluff above Camp three men out Hunting one Beaver caught this morning.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

all men aim at that which conveys to their minds an impression of good, and that men have no control over this impression, but that the End impresses each with a notion correspondent to his own individual character; that to be sure if each man is in a way the cause of his own moral state, so he will be also of the kind of impression he receives: whereas, if this is not so, no one is the cause to himself of doing evil actions, but he does them by reason of ignorance of the true End, supposing that through their means he will secure the chief good.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Justice seems to differ from temperance in degree rather than in kind; whereas temperance is the harmony of discordant elements, justice is the perfect order by which all natures and classes do their own business, the right man in the right place, the division and co-operation of all the citizens.
— from The Republic by Plato

For there was nothing he loved better than to look upon a tripping herd of deer, even when he could not tickle their ribs with a clothyard shaft.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Sharing with Charles Darwin the honor of discovering evolution, Professor Wallace has lately received many and signal honors from scientific societies.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Devoted to good works and his official duty, he gave up the joys of this life and even renounced the happiness of domestic existence; as you are aware, to the end of his days he was a bachelor.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He had grown used to the terrors of war and could face them unflinchingly; but its pathos, someway, always brought the tears to his old, dim eyes.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

He also had the materials of his house conveyed to the foot of Mount Velia, having observed that the commencement of his edifice on the summit of this hill, where King Tullius had once dwelt, excited the suspicions of the people.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The bruit flew fra Carrick to Galloway, and so suddenly assembled herd and hyre-man that pertained to the band of the Kennedies; and so within a few hours was the house of Denure environed again.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

He allowed no friend to think him better than his own deliberate estimate made him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We do not value culture enough to keep it in our employ or to pay it for its services; and what is this short-sighted negligence but the outcome of the universal shiftlessness begotten of the habit of doing everything in a hurry?
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

The lesson Kingsley drew from her fate was that the Church was fatally wrong to sanction “those habits of doing evil that good may come, of pious intrigue, and at last of open persecution, which are certain to creep in wheresoever men attempt to set up a merely religious empire, independent of human relationships and civil laws.”
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

For that every German kept his eyes and ears open in the hopes of detecting escaped prisoners we were well aware, as the reward offered by the German Government for such information as might lead to the capture of prisoners was very considerable, especially for the hated English.
— from My German Prisons Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War by Horace Gray Gilliland

This they were in the habit of doing every evening at the same hour,—for in South Africa it is necessary to shut up all kinds of live-stock at night, to protect them from beasts of prey.
— from The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family by Mayne Reid

It was on the tip of my tongue to tell him the ghastly truth, yet so strange was the circumstance that his own double, even to the mole upon his face, should be lying dead and buried in Scotland that I hesitated to relate what I knew.
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

The Federals slowly yielded, but for twelve hours obstinately disputed every inch of the way.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

What do you mean by virtue and vice? A. Virtue is the habit of doing good, and vice is the habit of doing evil.
— from A Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Anonymous

Ela, the heiress of D’Evereux, Earl of Salisbury, had been carried abroad and secreted by her French relations in Normandy.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts