Besides, what is more absurd than not to find in the world itself two doorways opposite to each other, through which it may either receive anything into itself, or cast it out from itself; and to seek of our throat and gullet, to which the world has no resemblance, to make up an image of the world in Janus, because the world is said to resemble the palate , to which Janus bears no likeness?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now I shall present to you what is most easily recognizable in the sexual life of the child.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

I believe that he was, in many essential respects, on the right track, and I propose simply to revise his conclusions by the aid of distinctions which he did not make.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The best handwriting is that which is most easily read.
— from Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic by John Wortabet

I am also informed that he lectured on Temperance at the Wheatsheaf in Mile End Road.
— from Charles Bradlaugh: a Record of His Life and Work, Volume 1 (of 2) With an Account of his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics and Teachings. Seventh Edition by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner

Biography is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

Meanwhile, my Boy (whom I momently expect) reads me Trollope’s ‘He knew he was right,’ the opening of which I think very fine: but which seems to be trailing off into ‘longueur’ as I fancy Trollope is apt to do.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald

And Sidney gave proof of his skill in that art, far beyond anything in the Arcadia —in some of those amatory poems under title of Astrophel and Stella , which were supposed to have grown out of his fruitless love for Penelope Devereux, to which I made early reference.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

I am relating to you, my dear friend, a story which is more especially remarkable for the multitude of unaccustomed sensations with which it abounds, and which I experience at every step—for my amourous adventures, as you will agree, bear no resemblance to the ready-made class of amours.
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

Robertson continued: That he had married into one of the best families of the State, and that his blood was mingled with theirs, &c. Holland, a coal-black representative, for what purpose or actuated by what impulse must ever remain a mystery, here interrupted, and asked if Robertson referred to him.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

At the same moment Mr Ferguson’s voice whispered in my ear— “Richard—Richard Galbraith, get up; I believe our retreat is discovered, and the Kaffirs are upon us.”
— from Richard Galbraith, Mariner; Or, Life among the Kaffirs by E. W. (Emma Watts) Phillips

The woods appeared full of enticing shapes, beckoning me to come to them, and the winds whispered in my ears: “Run!
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy