“They drew near, and observing that they were very comfortable standing before the warm fire, they put on logs and, while thus keeping it alive, brought up other people to it, showing them by signs how much comfort they got from it. In that gathering of men, at a time when utterance of sound was purely individual, from daily habits they fixed upon articulate words just as these had happened to come; then, from indicating by name things in common use, the result was that in this chance way they began to talk, and thus originated conversation with one another.”

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 68

Nicholas Sparks, Chapter 9, p. 138
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Source: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 10, “The Method of Science”, p. 105

To My People (July 4, 1973)

The Pudd'nhead Maxims, preface
Following the Equator (1897)

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 55

Source: Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982), Ch. 1 : Power-Over and Power-From-WIthin, p. 13

As quoted in David Crockett : His Life and Adventures (1875) by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, p. 294
Context: I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.

Source: The Tale of Despereaux