To a professional reformer who should annihilate so frightful and so devastating a power as this Church, reverence and praise would be due; but to a king who should do it, could properly be due nothing but reproach; reproach softened by sorrow; sorrow for his unfitness for his position.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria —For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary.
— 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.

And then; day after day, I dwelt on the one thought that by rights Regina should be at home in this house—just like my own boy.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Butler regards “reasonable self-love” as not [206] merely a normal motive to human action, but as being—no less than conscience—a “chief or superior principle in the nature of man”; so that an action “becomes unsuitable” to this nature, if the principle of self-love be violated.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

My brother Ráma, Raghu's son, To me is lord, friend, sire in one.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Run, boy, run, run, seek him out.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Monseigneur could swallow a great many things with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly swallowing France; but, his morning's chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This bank rises rather suddenly on the right to a clustering grove, penetrable to no star, at the entrance of which sits the stunned Thessalian king, holding between his knees that ivory-bright body which was, but an instant agone, parting the rough boughs with her smooth forehead, and treading alike on thorns and flowers with jealousy-stung foot—now helpless, heavy, void of all motion, save when the breeze lifts her thick hair in mockery.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

“The Roman Empire had not only conquered the world and given it politics and laws, but, recognizing religious superstitions to be the strongest chains by which to hold and control a people, it had adopted a scheme which had its origin [pg 184] in Babylon, in the time of her greatness as ruler of the world.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

“And such we do not pretend to be,” replied Rayner, stepping forward.
— from From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by William Henry Giles Kingston

Books by Jim Kjelgaard Big Red Rebel Siege Forest Patrol Buckskin Brigade Chip, the Dam Builder Fire Hunter Irish Red Kalak of the Ice A Nose for Trouble Snow Dog The Story of Geronimo Stormy Cochise, Chief of Warriors Trailing Trouble Wild Trek The Explorations of Pere Marquette The Spell of the White Sturgeon Outlaw Red The Coming of the Mormons Cracker Barrel
— from Hi Jolly! by Jim Kjelgaard

"It's queer for him to be runnin' 'round so when there's no need of it," Captain Eph interrupted.
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

Cheriton’s great Saint Bernard, Rolla, ranked somewhere very near Jack in his affections, and had been taught, trained, beaten, and petted, till he loved his master with untiring devotion.
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

But recent research shows that Central Asian MSS.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir