THE LION AND THE ASS One day as the Lion walked proudly down a forest aisle, and the animals respectfully made way for him, an Ass brayed a scornful remark as he passed.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

Eine Handvoll Gewalt ist besser als Sackvoll Recht —A handful of might is better than a sackful of right.
— 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 city, and the influences that centre here, defeated every army that had its headquarters here from 1861 to 1864, and would have overwhelmed General Grant at Spottsylvania and Petersburg, had he not been fortified by a strong reputation, already hard-earned, and because no one then living coveted the place; whereas, in the West, we made progress from the start, because there was no political capital near enough to poison our minds, and kindle into life that craving, itching for fame which has killed more good men than bullets.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

After two hours the guide stopped the elephant, and gave him an hour for rest, during which Kiouni, after quenching his thirst at a neighbouring spring, set to devouring the branches and shrubs round about him.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

And the salvage people were mucking about with a chart he'd cooked up, as solemn as could be, at Starr Race, a hundred and twenty miles away.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

They are thin in body but are stylish roasters, and have a good cup qualities.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is with this as with a number of other subjects that relate to physiology and animal economy, the authors, very few excepted, who have written on these subjects, have treated them in a manner so vague, and explained them by affinities so remote, and hypotheses so false, that it is not surprising their remarks should have been attended with as little information as utility.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 04 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Byron and Shelley rode after him to remonstrate; but the man struck Shelley from his saddle with [Pg 165] a sabre blow.
— from Shelley by John Addington Symonds

It has been more than once insisted upon that a man may accept Christ as his Saviour and His religion as his firm belief and still remain a Hindu if he only submit to the demands of caste.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

So they rode, and in due time they came to fields of mud left by a subsiding river, and here and there green hillocks rose out of the dreary expanse, and on them were built castles of grey stone.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

That he has kept with you so honestly and faithfully deserves not only our warmest thanks, but also some return, and he shall never find us behindhand."
— from The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants by Friedrich Gerstäcker

The vessel seemed rushing on to certain destruction; but, as she rounded a high bluff, the wind was left behind, and, after running twice her length into a calm basin, Jacques ordered the anchor let go, and she was brought up.
— from The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

They are composed of slightly-elevated mounds, having the form of a truncated cone, about two feet in width at the base, and seldom rising as high as eighteen inches from the surface of the soil.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie