—There is a certain amount of comedy about systemisers: in trying to complete a system and to round off its horizon they have to try to let their weaker qualities appear in the same style as their stronger ones.—They wish to represent complete and uniformly strong natures.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

40 X. Incidunt multae saepe causae, quae conturbent animos utilitatis specie, non cum hoc deliberetur, relinquendane sit honestas propter utilitatis magnitudinem (nam id quidem improbum est), sed illud, possitne id, quod utile videatur, fieri non turpiter.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The first pale faces who came among us spoke no English.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

There cannot be another town in the world that has no shabby exteriors; no rickety gates and fences, no neglected houses crumbling to ruin, no crazy and unsightly sheds, no weed-grown front-yards of the poor, no back-yards littered with tin cans and old boots and empty bottles, no rubbish in the gutters, no clutter on the sidewalks, no outer-borders fraying out into dirty lanes and tin-patched huts.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Introduced at Hyde Park Corner with the strongest recommendations and certificates from such authorities as Lord Alfred Paget, Sir Richard Airey, Colonel Hood, &c., &c., Messrs. Tattersall investigated Mr. Rarey’s system, and became convinced that its general adoption would confer an invaluable benefit on what may be called “the great horse interest,” and do away with a great deal of cruelty and unnecessary severity now practised on the best-bred and most high-spirited animals through ignorance of colt-breakers and grooms.
— from A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey

Then the gay Niece , the seeming Pauper press’d;— “Turn, Nancy , turn, and view this Form distrest; {128} “Akin to thine is this declining Frame, “And this poor Beggar claims an Uncle ’s Name.”
— from Poems by George Crabbe

"Si qui vero infra subdiaconatum constituti matrimonia contraxerint, ab uxoribus sius nisi de communi consensu ad religionem transire voluerint, et ibi in Dei servitio vigilanter permanere, nullatenus separentur: sed cum uxoribus viventes, ecclesiastica benficia nullo modo percipiant.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 by Various

This was an invention of Maggie's, and was considered by the children an unfailing source not only of amusement, but also of profit.
— from Belle Powers' Locket by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

"I have been trying to persuade Evelyn to pay us a little visit," said Caroline; "she could accompany us so nicely; and if she is still strange with us, dear grandmamma goes too,—I am sure we can make her at home.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Above one curious and unlatticed screen, near to a matted dais, droops a hideous banner, red, purple, and yellow, with a white cross.
— from The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens