It is superfluous to point out the immense effect of those inventions in extending civilization and developing the resources of that vast continent.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

For the praises of many tongues, is in effect no better than the clattering of so many tongues.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Yet as the real difference between them is invisible even to a theological microscope, the Molinists are oppressed by the authority of the saint, and the Jansenists are disgraced by their resemblance to the heretic.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

2. "At such a time it is expedient for thee to flee to humble and external works, and to renew thyself with good actions; to wait for My coming and heavenly visitation with sure confidence; to bear thy exile and drought of mind with patience, until thou be visited by Me again, and be freed from all anxieties.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

We found in fact that it is exhibited by a photographic plate, and, strictly speaking, by any particular taken in conjunction with those which have the same "passive" place in the sense defined in Lecture VII.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

It is probable, therefore, that the crime was either committed when insane, or that its immediate effect was to drive the unhappy woman out of her mind.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

One or both of these two ideas, (i) ‘excessive readiness, officious zeal,’ (ii) ‘affectation, unreality,’ are involved in this and similar compounds; e.g. ἐθελοδουλεία, ἐθελοκάκησις, ἐθελοκίνδυνος, ἐθελοκωφέιν, ἐθελορήτωρ, ἐθελοπρόξενος: these compounds being used most frequently, though not always (as this last word shows), in a bad sense.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

But the country that expects the invasion is employed infinite ways, in fortifying towns, blockading passes, rivers, and ports, raising soldiers, disposing garrisons, building and breaking down bridges, procuring aids, securing provisions, arms, ammunition, &c.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This is in entire accord with the findings of psychoanalysis, namely, that the nucleus of all neuroses as far as our present knowledge of them goes is the Oedipus complex.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

It is like a Greek tragedy in its effect, without being in the least Greek."
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

The political part of your letter corresponds precisely with the ideas I entertain and have uniformly inculcated on the subject.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Now I think it is enough to be a witness for the truth, and to think the thoughts I like.
— from Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Thus it is estimated that they cost the people of London upwards of half a million dollars a year, due to extra lighting, damage to vehicles, loss of business, etc.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

Primaries crossed at regular intervals with quadrate spots of the same tint, these becoming fused toward ends of quills, forming a terminal dusky space of two or three inches in extent; tips of all the quills narrowly white; the black bars do not extend quite to the primary coverts, and decrease both in extent and regularity toward the base.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

But at the same time it is endangering the other pioneer ideal of creative and competitive individualism.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

Of course it is only natural that the moral forces they express should be unable to affect the human mind powerfully without pulling it outside itself and without plunging it into a state that may be called ecstatic , provided that the word be taken in its etymological sense (ἔκστασις); but it does not follow that they are imaginary.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

One would not say, "Let the dead never come back to me in a thought, or a dream; let them never glide before me in the still watch of meditation; let me see, let me hear them no more, even in fancy;"—not one of us would say this; and, therefore, it is evident, that whatever painful circumstance memory or association may recall,—even though it cause us to go out and weep bitterly,—there is a sacred pleasure, a tender melancholy, that speaks to us in these voices of the dead, which we are willing to cherish and repeat.
— from The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

In addition, we are assisting rapidly industrializing nations to carefully assess their basic energy policy choices, and our development assistance program helps the developing countries to increase indigenous energy production to meet the energy needs of their poorest citizens.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter