Hence the misery of the Jews is an anachronism—not because there was a period of enlightenment one hundred years ago, for that enlightenment reached in reality only the choicest spirits.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

10.]; and nothing tends more to disturb our understanding, and precipitate us into any opinions, however unreasonable, than their connexion with passion; which diffuses itself over the imagination, and gives an additional force to every related idea.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

“It was to discover that letter, then, that her husband forced the lock of the despatch-case?” “Yes, and from the enormous risk he ran we can see how fully he realized its importance.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

[Pg 217] might learn the complexion of its thoughts; but, as we should have no realities outside of it to compare them with,—for if we had, the Mind would not be Absolute,—we could not criticise them, and find them either right or wrong; and we should have to call them simply the thoughts, and not the knowledge , of the Absolute Mind.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Truth certainly exists, if existence be not too mean an attribute for that eternal realm which is tenanted by ideals; but truth is repugnant to physical or psychical being.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power, than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, But never taxed for speech.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Roasted Coffee 3. Macroscopic Examination—Tentative Artificial coffee beans are apparent from their exact regularity of form.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It was in the night; and, as he passed along the plain, the people of Govardhun heard the thunder of his tread and felt the earth rocking under it, and they ran out, and there, with their snowy summits piled to heaven, they saw the Himalayas passing by.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

She absented herself as little as possible from Lady Bertram, kept away from the East room, and took no solitary walk in the shrubbery, in her caution to avoid any sudden attack.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

As an Abolitionist, therefore, I am for the equal rights movement, and as one of the confessedly oppressed race, how could I be otherwise?
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

He still worshipped his mother, whose little miniature he kept always by him, and he had always fancied that Edith resembled her.
— from Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

Apart from the extraordinary richness of its elements, the work may be considered from two outlooks, specifically German, and universally human, respectively.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

They went away with a fair gale on the day that the moon was at the full; by my account in the month of October; but as for the exact reckoning of days, after I had once lost it, I could never recover it again; nor had I kept even the number of years so punctually, as to be sure that I was right, though, as it proved when I afterwards examined my account, I found I had kept a true reckoning of years.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

"And for this end, restrain by prohibitive duties the entrance of the products of the industry of other nations."
— from What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Frédéric Bastiat

In this he was much behind his age or before it Logic is rarely the quality on which kings pride themselves Necessity of deferring to powerful sovereigns Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to bed Partisans wanted not accommodation but victory Puritanism in Holland was a very different thing from England Seemed bent on self-destruction Stand between hope and fear The evils resulting from a confederate system of government To stifle for ever the right of free enquiry
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617 by John Lothrop Motley

The Social Democratic Party of Germany fights thus not for new class-privileges and exceptional rights, but for the abolition of class-domination and of the classes themselves, and for the equal rights and equal obligations of all, without distinction of sex and parentage.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

In a fortnight the excitement reached fever-heat.
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

Education in Ireland has been too long a thing apart from the economic realities of the country—with what result we know.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

Mr. von Osten's apparent failure to elicit responses from the horse on topics of which it was ignorant is a beautiful illustration of the power of imagination.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

4: Paragraph 35 When Butler had left Hutton Trust — by which I mean the day he actually left, although he'd been given notice a month or more before — he'd had a falling out with Lockwood, and Lockwood had made a scene, shouting in the hall and ordering Butler off the premises immediately; it had upset everyone, and then we'd held up Butler's last paycheck, and he'd gone to the state labor board and to a lawyer, and it'd been a mess, both legally and from the employee relations standpoint.
— from Diamond Dust by K. Kay Shearin