The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Does not the lively, cheerful colour of a countenance inspire me with complacency and pleasure; even though I learn from philosophy that all difference of complexion arises from the most minute differences of thickness, in the most minute parts of the skin; by means of which a superficies is qualified to reflect one of the original colours of light, and absorb the others?
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

But a school supposes teachers as well as scholars: the utility of the instruction greatly depends on its bringing inferior minds into contact with superior, a contact which in the ordinary course of life is altogether exceptional, and the want of which contributes more than any thing else to keep the generality of mankind on one level of contented ignorance.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

In waking moments we wish only for the conventional things which will not run counter to our social traditions or code of living.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The Overhill Cherokee, on lower Little Tennessee, seem to have been trying in good faith to hold to the peace established at the Long island.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Why, he said, you should give them the ordinary conveniences of life.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Our mess establishment was less in bulk than that of any of the brigade commanders; nor was this from an indifference to the ordinary comforts of life, but because I wanted to set the example, and gradually to convert all parts of that army into a mobile machine, willing and able to start at a minute's notice, and to subsist on the scantiest food.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Tendencies Needing Constant Regulation Physical and social sanctions of correct thinking Up to a certain point, the ordinary conditions of life, natural and social, provide the conditions requisite for regulating the operations of inference.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

And although the ordinary cares of life still pressed on me for many years, often in a most vexatious and troublesome form, yet the anxieties attendant on my ardent youthful wishes were in a manner subdued and calm.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The experiences themselves may cease to be distinctly imagined after the notion of their pleasure has been transferred to the object, constituting our love therefor.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

I have so many already, many more than all the other children of Liparia put together!
— from Majesty: A Novel by Louis Couperus

—My master, Fonfouca, lived till three hundred; it is the ordinary course of life among us Brahmins.
— from The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration. by Voltaire

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.—
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

I suffer much, for I have lost the only charm of life: that active, sacred power which created worlds around me,--it is no more.
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller

51 Besides, in the ordinary conduct of life, it is ridiculous to listen only to one's own caprice, doing nothing that is prescribed by the divinities, limiting oneself exclusively to demanding one's conservation, without carrying out any of the actions on which (the divinities) willed that our preservation should depend.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

The first British settlers there must probably have been restless spirits, impatient of the high rents and insufficient room inside the City walls and willing, for economy, to risk the forays of any Saxon pirates who chose to steal up the river on a dusky night and sack the outlying cabins of London.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

They talked a little in low tones, and I looked at Margarita and thought of the odd chances of life, and how we are hurried past this and that and stranded on the other, and skim the rapids sometimes, to be wrecked later in clear shallows, perhaps.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

I accordingly determined on setting out without further delay, and joined an acquaintance in hiring a cabriolet for the journey, to obviate the trouble of changing our luggage at every post, and to avoid any delay that might arise from not finding a carriage at every station, which is by no means certain, as in England.
— from A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium, during the summer and autumn of 1814 by Richard Boyle Bernard