Keep cool, and you command everybody.
— 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.

As were, in good sooth, perhaps feasible, or would once have been; nothing but some two chasseurs attending you; chasseurs easily corrupted!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There was a man with me who trod on some of them cables as you call 'em, and the next instant there was no man—but I don't want to talk of that."
— from The Doom of London by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

The reef is a timekeeper of a very curious character; and you can easily understand why.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

“What color are your clothes, Edward?” asked his wife.
— from Little Stories of Married Life by Mary Stewart Cutting

Among these were the Seigneur de Capres and young Count Egmont.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

As his mother you have more right to manage him than I. I've a good mind to send away Miss Crane, and you can engage a twenty-pound governess—to be paid out of your income."
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume

In your letter just received, you have improved your case versus Natural Selection; and it would tell with the public (do not be tempted by its novelty to make it too strong); yet is seems to me, not REALLY very killing, though I cannot answer your case, especially, why Rodents have not become highly developed in Australia.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

My dear, whoever you are, that hour is coming, and you cannot escape from it.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade