And did I nurse the darling boy, Your fiendish appetite to cloy?' With that they knock'd him on the head.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
— 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.

The Tontine coffee house did not figure so prominently in the historic events of the nation and city as did its neighbor, the Merchants coffee house.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

We are discussing ideas , not things ; and those are simple, and can only be seen, while these are complex, and may be perceived, distinguished, and conceived.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought, Adonis lives, and death is not to blame; 992 It was not she that call’d him all to naught; Now she adds honours to his hateful name.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When she was ready I brought her forth, and Donna Ignazia noticing that she had changed her stockings and kerchief, asked her whether I were as expert at dressing a lady as at turning a lady into a gentleman.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The dragon is also said to have nine ‘resemblances’: “its horns resemble those of a deer, its head that of a camel, its eyes those of a devil, its neck that of a snake, its abdomen that of a large cockle, its scales those of a carp, its claws those of an eagle, the soles of its feet those of a tiger, its ears those of an ox;” but some have no ears, the organ of hearing being said to be in the horns, or the creature “hears through its horns.”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

I have also deemed it necessary to add some seventy sections * under various heads, and Dr. Hayley has been good enough to write sections 2458-2510 , which precede his chapter on Versification .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

CLEINIAS: You mean to say, I suppose, that the best government is produced from a tyranny, and originates in a good lawgiver and an orderly tyrant, and that the change from such a tyranny into a perfect form of government takes place most easily; less easily when from an oligarchy; and, in the third degree, from a democracy: is not that your meaning? ATHENIAN: Not so; I mean rather to say that the change is best made out of a tyranny; and secondly, out of a monarchy; and thirdly, out of some sort of democracy: fourth, in the capacity for improvement, comes oligarchy, which has the greatest difficulty in admitting of such a change, because the government is in the hands of a number of potentates.
— from Laws by Plato

Whether he has to do with many people or few, or with things great or small, he does not dare to indicate any disrespect;— is not this to maintain a dignified ease without any pride?
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

But all disguise is now thrown aside, as if it was no longer necessary.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

"Thirty-two years ago, I lived for some time in a district in Natal, then thickly populated with natives, still
— from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter

They had discussed the question of vengeance; he had pointed out its futility, and Hadria had set her teeth and desired it none the less.
— from The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird

Ah, did I not tell you?" as a gust of wind shrieked and rattled the sash.
— from What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Alexandre Dumas is not the least of the glories of France.
— from What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Frederick was alarmed, and deemed it necessary to strengthen himself by matrimonial alliances.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man.
— from Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

A canal 1,000 feet long takes water from the river above the upper of these falls and delivers it near to the electric power-house on the river bank below the lower falls.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

When all these quantities are determined in numbers, the longitude, latitude, and distance of the planet from the sun are computed for stated intervals, and formed into tables, arranged according to the time estimated from a given epoch, so that the place of the body may be determined from them by inspection alone, at any instant for perhaps a thousand years before and after that epoch.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville