But in the other, good men must defend themselves by taking to them for a sanctuary the two daughters of war, deceit and violence: that is, in plain terms, a mere brutal rapacity.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The Owl gets married (p. 291 ): Told by Swimmer.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

VII No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; O give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace; Let folk o'er-charged with brain against me cry; Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye; Let me no steps, but of lost labour, trace; Let all the earth with scorn recount my case— But do not will me from my love to fly.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

7. He who knoweth things as they are and not as they are said or seem to be, he truly is wise, and is taught of God more than of men.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

To account in some measure for this to the reader, I think proper to inform him, that there was no one in the kingdom less interested in opposing that doctrine concerning the meaning of the word charity, which hath been seen in the preceding chapter, than our good man.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Come, come,” said Danglars, tapping his fingers against the door, “I think it is quite time to think of giving me something to eat!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Fragment #7—Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg. i. 824: 'Beseeching the offspring of glorious Cleodaeus.' Fragment #8—Suidas, s.v.: 'For the Olympian gave might to the sons of Aeacus, and wisdom to the sons of Amythaon, and wealth to the sons of Atreus.' Fragment #9—Scholiast on Homer, Iliad, xiii. 155: 'For through his lack of wood the timber of the ships rotted.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

The fascia iliaca, the fascia pelvica, and the fascia transversalis, are only regional divisions of the one general membrane.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

If his mere past and personal merits did not succeed in mollifying his father, George determined that he would distinguish himself so prodigiously in the ensuing campaign that the old gentleman must give in to him.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And up again about six (Lord's day), and being dressed in my velvett coate and plain cravatte took a hackney coach provided ready for me by eight o'clock, and so to my Lord Bruncker's with all my papers, and there took his coach with four horses and away toward Hampton Court, having a great deale of good discourse with him, particularly about his coming to lie at the office, when I went further in inviting him to than I intended, having not yet considered whether it will be convenient for me or no to have him here so near us, and then of getting Mr. Evelyn or Sir Robert Murray into the Navy in the room of Sir Thomas Harvey.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The acid ammonic vanadiate, mixed with tincture of galls, makes a very durable writing ink, unacted upon either by alkalies or chlorine.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

He might have died upon his ash-heap as thousands of good men have died, and will die again in misery.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

The truth is that I am thinking of getting married.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The one great merit of Walt Whitman is that he lived in America and in the nineteenth century; he did not live in the past; he did not live in Europe; he lived in the present and in the world about him, his home was America, his era was his own.
— from Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy

And so it does when sown in the garden of the Lord.—False doctrines or errors soon spread, being agreeable to the vicious inclinations of the heart.—Often what is most pleasing and promising at first turns out, to our great mortification, far otherwise.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

A higher principle than that of gain must influence a medical man’s mind, or he will never advocate the doctrine of total abstinence.”— J. J. Ritchie , M. R. C. S., Leek.
— from Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

As we shall see later, the most important factor in the training of good mental habits consists in acquiring the attitude of suspended conclusion, and in mastering the various methods of searching for new materials to corroborate or to refute the first suggestions that occur.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

An hour's ride brought them to the outposts; and communicating with the officer on duty, they were conducted by an orderly to the tent of General Middleton, who received Chaloner with great warmth as an old friend, and was very courteous to Edward as soon as he heard that he was the son of Colonel Beverley.
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat