I am very taken with Diogenes' remark to a stranger at Lacedæmon, who was dressing with much display for a feast, "Does not a good man consider every day a feast?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

To each of these characteristic monuments there is attached by a similarity of taste, fashion, and attitude, a certain number of houses scattered about in different quarters and which the eyes of the connoisseur easily distinguishes and furnishes with a date.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

So much concerning eunuchs disguised as females.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Frederick Tyrrell, Esq., Surgeon to the London Ophthalmic Hospital, and to St. Thomas's Hospital, mentions a case equally distressing:— "A fair and delicate girl, about seventeen years of age, was brought to witness in consequence of total loss of vision.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

If I can ever do anything for you here, in a legal way, don't hesitate to call on me."
— from Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune by Stanley R. Matthews

We go out into the night again, wondering if perdition can equal De Aar for miserable discomfort, and De Aar officialdom for inconsequence.
— from On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James

“Come, nivver dee i’ thi shell, owd lad,” Are words but rudely said; Though they may cheer some stricken heart, Or raise some wretched head; For they are words I love mysel, They’re music to my ear; They muster up fresh energy An’ chase each doubt an’ fear.
— from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

What is extraordinary is, neither his mistress nor Madame la Duchesse de Berry, nor his ‘roues’, could ever draw anything from him, even when drunk, concerning the affairs of the government, however important.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

Of individuals, the varieties are innumerable: but no professional body of men ever acquired gain or celebrity by maintaining theses, and employing arguments, which every one could easily detect as false.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

After a slow descent, which seemed wellnigh endless, they could even distinguish a flow of sound in suppressed but eager torrent.
— from My Lady Nobody: A Novel by Maarten Maartens

Tell your brother that if I can get the Blue Point lighthouse berth for him I will, and as for yourself, you will always find a friend in me, and if I can ever do anything for you I will."
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

What are known also as pretty little thin cloisonné enamels, date also from about the same epoch, and fetch considerable prices in China.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan