PG Editor's Note: Misspellings, inventive punctuation and lack of punctuation along with variable capitalization, and not entirely clear abbreviations have been left as is.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Aut Cæsar aut nihil —Either Cæsar or nobody.
— 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.

If the township and the county are not everywhere constituted in the same manner, it is at least true that in the United States the county and the township are always based upon the same principle, namely, that everyone is the best judge of what concerns himself alone, and the most proper person to supply his private wants.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The city also narrowly escaped capture; for the walls at that time were not under strict guard, and two towers, with the whole intermediate space, having already fallen to the ground, would have offered an easy entrance within the wall to the army, if the whole of it had undertaken the task.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Qui cum anima nondum exspirata concidisset, et, 15 impetu facto in cubiculum ex suspicione, medicus familiaresque continere atque vulnus obligare coepissent, ipse suis manibus vulnus crudelissime divellit, atque animo praesenti se interemit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Moreover, I assert that to admit that there are mysteries, you must at least realise that they are incomprehensible, and children are not even capable of this conception!
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All you need is to make a simple plan or diagram on a sheet of paper or cardboard and number eight counters, 1 to 8.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

There are also people, who have a trick of abiding by their, own opinions, who are commonly called Positive, as they who are hard to be persuaded, and whose convictions are not easily changed: now these people bear some resemblance to the character of Self-Control, just as the prodigal to the liberal or the rash man to the brave, but they are different in many points.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

David and old Benedict had worried about her future, until David suggested that the old doctor give her what training he could and put her in charge of such of his cases as needed especial care.
— from Dominie Dean: A Novel by Ellis Parker Butler

Another kind of seal, in use by corporations and notaries especially, consists simply of an impression made on paper without attaching any foreign substance whatever.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

The Muslims call Abraham the friend of merciful compassion; from this title, Hebron received its current Arabic name, El Chalil .
— from Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine) by Karl May

The Youth must grasp this fundamental truth, for this will strengthen them in their service to the Cause, as nothing else can or will.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 2) by Effendi Shoghi

He has been to the border of their country, and narrowly escaped capture.
— from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land by Victor Appleton

By these means the general improvement of the business of education experienced only accelerating circumstances; and now even Catholic countries, particularly those in which many Protestants dwell, ceased to hang back, and there is now scarcely a place in Germany which does not possess a school; scarcely a state whose government has not thrown out a plan of education more or less adapted to its end.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

I think there is not one of them that her hand ever touched, or that she ever saw, but in their entirety they convey, as nothing else could, the reverence that Joan's memory has inspired during the centuries that have gone since her presence made this sacred ground.
— from The Car That Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine

As fast as the new supplies came down, they were heaped up, right and left and centre; and no engineer could have done the work better, so far as increasing the size of the mill-pond was concerned.
— from Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard