It has been an unfortunate consequence of mythical philosophies that moral emotions have been stretched to objects with which a man has only physical relations, so that the universe has been filled with monsters more or less horrible, according as the forces they represented were more or less formidable to human life.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

impones ad uaporem ut cum ouis meare possint —warning, get along with the eggs, i.e. beware of boiling them for they will curdle, and the experiment is hopelessly lost.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

But spare yourselves the trouble, ladies, of pressing me to stay, for the urgent calls of my profession do not allow me to take rest under any circumstances."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Consciousness is a complex and far from universal characteristic of mental phenomena.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The standing army do the thing well, and will stand anything (well-iced) to all friends within reasonable limits, under command of Mr. Punch , President.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 18, 1892 by Various

Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Permanent Charge d'Affaires Carmen M. MARTINEZ embassy: 581 Merchant Street, Rangoon (GPO 521) mailing address: Box B, APO AP 96546 telephone: [95] (1) 379 880, 379 881 FAX:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[176] The obscure and tangled mysticism which the young author of the Commentary on the Psalms built up on Augustine—whose spirit was far more profound than Luther’s—the smattering of Augustinian theology, altered to suit his controversial purposes, with which he supplemented his own scholastic, or rather Occamistic, theology, and the needless length of the work, make his Commentary into an unattractive congeries of moral, philosophical and theological thoughts, undigested, disconnected and sometimes unintelligible.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The girl was plainly so overwrought that she was fairly frantic, and it would require the utmost circumspection on my part to keep her from precipitating matters before somebody came.
— from The Paternoster Ruby by Charles Edmonds Walk

“It is that which I wish to understand clearly,” observed Monsieur Pascal.
— from The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance by Harriet Martineau

But spare yourselves the trouble, ladies, of pressing me to stay, for the urgent calls of my profession do not allow me to take rest under any circumstances.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Everything I looked at, and still more the universal courtesy of manner, promptly convinced me of the great mistake it is to look upon the Russian nation as behindhand in European civilization.
— from The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough) by Ungern-Sternberg, Maria Stella Petronilla, Baroness

At this time a small force, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Pond, of the Seventeenth Ohio Volunteers, was besieged at Glenville, a small village on the banks of the Little Kanawha, by a superior force of rebels, under command of Major Patton, assisted by Captain O. Jennings Wise.
— from The Seventh Regiment: A Record by George L. Wood