But Experience has told us, nothing is so fallacious as this outward Sign of Sorrow; and the natural History of our Bodies will teach us that this Flux of the Eyes, this Faculty of Weeping, is peculiar only to some Constitutions.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The sense then with which is connected the habit of absence of self-control is the most common of all the senses, and this habit would seem to be justly a matter of reproach, since it attaches to us not in so far as we are men but in so far as we are animals.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

You must shake yourself up, nothing is so foolish as giving way to these acquired habits of solitude and separation from your kind."
— from The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn

Nor have the most ordinary incidents of the visit any lack of interest for us now, in so far as they help to complete the picture of himself: "Allan has been squiring me about, all the morning.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster