50 I make the most of my enjoyments; and as for my troubles, I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
— 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.

It was at least change, and it came with a rush.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

By merely longing and desiring I can be as little convinced as I can make progress in virtue by the use of my feet, or repent of sins by a toothache.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

The play is a light comedy, and is called "The Ballet of the Gueegueence or the Macho-Raton."
— from Aboriginal American Authors by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

After you shall have strained it, boiling hot through a linnen cloth and it comes cold, being then of a glutinous consistence, drop in a 'bit' of Sal Alkali and add as much warm water as will bring it to a due fluidity and a gold brown color for writing with a pen."
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

There is nothing any longer certain; all is confusion.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

This strip has few inhabitants and little cultivation, and is covered with high grass and cotton tree ( semal ) jungle, the haunt of wild buffalo and rhinoceros.
— from The Mikirs by Edward Stack

It will be a ‘leading case,’ as it clearly defines the distinction between the liberty of speech as guarantied to the respectable American Senator and that scandalous abuse of it by such men as Charles Sumner.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

[83] All these things had prepared an unfriendly fate for Diderot when his time at last came, as it came to most of his friends.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Morley

The mountains, for which they were heading, were looming larger now, and looked cool and inviting compared to the heat of their present position.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert by Josephine Chase

On the eighth day of November, he was consecrated and crowned emperor, by the archbishop of Cologne, in the church of our Lady at Aix la Chapelle, as is customary; after which ceremony, he was to be confirmed in his dignity by the pope of Rome.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 04 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet