"Zen" is the Japanese equivalent for the Dhyâna, which "represents human effort to reach through meditation zones of thought beyond the range of verbal expression."
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

No! though the clamors of the envious crowd Pursue the son of Genius, he will rise From the dull clod, borne by an effort proud Beyond the reach of vulgar enmities.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The practical unimportance of the question of Free Will becomes more clear if we scrutinize closely the range of volitional effects.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

They captured Mazatlan and Guaymas, and then called on Colonel Mason to send soldiers down to hold possession, but he had none to spare, and it was found impossible to raise other volunteers either in California or Oregon, and the navy held these places by detachments of sailors and marines till the end of the war.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

When Plato describes his imaginary good man, overwhelmed with the disgrace of crime, and deserving of all the rewards of virtue, every feature of the portrait is that of Christ; the resemblance is so striking that it has been noticed by all the Fathers, and there can be no doubt about it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And consider, sir, on my behalf, what is in the power of a woman stript of her reputation and left destitute; whether the good-natured world will suffer such a stray sheep to return to the road of virtue, even if she was never so desirous.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The rewards of virtue extend not only to this little space of human life but to the whole of existence.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Then by a pleasant gradation you are carried on from the Hippogypians, or the Riders of Vultures, every feather in whose wing is bigger and longer than the mast of a tall ship, from the fleas as big as twelve elephants, to those spiders, of mighty bigness, every one of which exceeded in size an isle of the Cyclades.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

It was then found that when the assistant broke in at random with his signals, the judgment of the observer was vastly less accurate than when the assistant carefully watched the observer's breathing and made both the beginning of the time given him and that of the time which he was to give coincide with identical phases thereof.—Finally, Münsterberg with great plausibility tries to explain the discrepancies between the results of Vierordt, Estel, Mehner, Glass, etc., as due to the fact that they did not all use the same measure .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The Chobe-dar , or silver-pole bearer, is retained only by persons of consequence; sometimes only one, but usually two are employed, and even four may be seen in the retinue of very exalted characters.
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson

There remained only voluntary enlistment, and, I pointed out, there was no proof of that before the court.
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

These differ only in the rate of vibration, each plane vibrating through one great octave, with gulfs of "lost" octaves between.
— from Ancient and Modern Physics by Thomas E. Willson

"This volume contains the record of various experiments made with ants, bees, and wasps during the last ten years, with a view to test their mental condition and powers of sense.
— from The Warfare of Science by Andrew Dickson White

You mean to evade my argument that the increase of wages shall settle upon profits; according to this argument, it will settle upon price, and not upon profits; yet again on price in such a way as to escape the absurdity of two relations of value existing between the very same things.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

The winter passed away in fruitless labors to make some sort of a water passage to the rear of Vicksburg, either above, via the Yazoo, or around through Louisiana to some point below the city, whence the army could cross again to the Vicksburg side of the Mississippi and strike Pemberton's stronghold from the southeast.
— from History of the United States, Volume 4 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

As his somewhat tardy tenderness revived the waiting perceptions of his angelic godsend herald, sighs, like the rustling flutter of leaves stirred in the stillness of noon-day by the advance of a shower, betokened the restoration of vital energy, with the genial accompaniment of joyful tears.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

Self-contempt, anger at one's own personality, the result of vain endeavours to improve oneself—that is the way to a higher life.
— from Legends: Autobiographical Sketches by August Strindberg

It seized upon the revenues of vacant ecclesiastical offices, which the king specially affected.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird