“Let us cut 'em down!”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

It will be pleasure and delight if I may serve you as a friend; as a friend, but all I have ever learned, all I can ever do, shall be for you and those you love.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Il seroit peut-etre a-propos de ne point souffrir d'images de la Trinite ou de la Divinite; les defenseurs les plus zeles des images ayant condamne celles-ci, et le concile de Trente ne parlant que des images de Jesus Christ et des Saints, (Dupin, Bibliot.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Humores corruptos qui aliter a natura concoqui et domari possint, et demum blande excludi, irritat, et quasi in furorem agit, qui postea mota camerina, tetro vapore corpus varie lacessunt, animumque.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

la cabeza, empezó su conferencia, consulta, exposición de plan o lo que fuera, y habló larguísimo rato.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I therefore do not maintain, I repeat, that a people is secure from revolutions simply because conditions are equal in the community; but I think that, whatever the institutions of such a people may be, great revolutions will always be far less violent and less frequent than is supposed; and I can easily discern a state of polity, which, when combined with the principle of equality, would render society more stationary than it has ever been in our western apart of the world.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

It cannot even define itself!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Come, Etty dear; come out
— from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

We have to recollect that the reign of Louis XIV. was the time of the artists Berain, Lebrun, and, later in the reign, of Watteau, also of André Charles Boule, ciseleur et doreur du roi , and of Colbert, that admirable Minister of Finance, who knew so well how to second his royal master's taste for grandeur and magnificence.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield

It is seen among women in all countries and all religions, and although true religion sets out this jewel in the greatest beauty, yet superstition and false religions cannot entirely destroy its lustre.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

In connection with the Vale of White Horse there are three traditions—one, that Alfred fought a great battle there; another, that he played a harp in the camp of the Danes; a third, that Alfred proved himself a very bad cook who wasted a poor woman's cake, a poor woman who would willingly have sacrificed cakes every day to have the honour of the king under her roof.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke

No, it couldn't be with a murder charge!" expostulated Donovan.
— from The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele

Aristotle himself (in his Treatise on the Categories) expressly denies that the δεύτεραι οὔσιαι, or Substantiæ Secundæ, inhere in a subject.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

In consolar i casi e dolor miei."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various