The term "struggle for existence" is used in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual but success in leaving progeny.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

However, the thinkers invited by Lomenie are now far on with their pamphlets: States-General, on one plan or another, will infallibly meet; if not in January, as was once hoped, yet at latest in May.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I mean what I may illustrate negatively by the example of the body.
— from The Republic by Plato

But, woe is me, I now comprehend what has made thee give so little heed to what thou owest to thyself; it must have been some freedom of mine, for I will not call it immodesty, as it did not proceed from any deliberate intention, but from some heedlessness such as women are guilty of through inadvertence when they think they have no occasion for reserve.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“You?” exclaimed Morrel, with increasing anger and reproach—“you, who have deceived me with false hopes, who have cheered and soothed me with vain promises, when I might, if not have saved her, at least have seen her die in my arms!
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

670, 677 Rationality, sense of, I. 260-4 ; II. 647 Reaction-time , I. 87 ; simple, 88 ; what it measures is not conscious thought, 90 ; Lange's distinction between muscular and sensorial, 92 ; its variations, 94-7 ; influenced by expectant attention, 427 ff.; after intellectual process, 432 ; after discrimination, 523 ; after association, 557 ; after perception, II.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

To gather gold alone is wretched slaving; To have to watch it makes it not worth having.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

And though, maybe, the host of the wicked is many in number, yet is it contemptible, since it is under no leadership, but is hurried hither and thither at the blind driving of mad error.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Instruments lose their virtue with their use and a medium of representation, together with its manipulation, is nothing but a vehicle.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The aperture of one of these, which I measure, is nearly half-an-inch in diameter, while in juxtaposition with it is situated another cavity, measuring across the entrance less than the eighth part of an inch.
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper

"I am glad you did," replied Robert, drawing a long breath, "for never in my life was I more in need of help."
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

Never was it more imperatively necessary that Congress should at once take into its “consideration” the measures recommended by the President.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

In April, 1770, the regiment marched into Dorsetshire and Somersetshire; in June, 1771, it was removed to Canterbury, and employed on coast duty until April, 1772, when it marched into Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, and Lincolnshire.
— from Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars Containing an Account of the Origin of the Regiment in 1690, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1842 by Richard Cannon

Conversely, it is the greatest sufferer and pauper in vitality, who is most in need of mildness, peace and goodness—that which to-day is called humaneness—in thought as well as in action, and possibly of a God whose speciality is to be a God of the sick, a Saviour, and also of logic or the abstract intelligibility of existence even for idiots (—the typical “free-spirits,” [pg 067] like the idealists, and “beautiful souls,” are décadents —); in short, of a warm, danger-tight, and narrow confinement, between optimistic horizons which would allow of stultification.…
— from The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The one who is made is not to say to the Maker, "Why hast thou formed me in this or that manner?" We only wish the question answered in what manner we were really made.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

It is reported that Brazil has coal mines yet to be exploited, and if this takes place Argentina, which is much in need of coal, will be one of the principal markets.
— from The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise by John Foster Fraser