In the state nobody can enjoy life in peace, 20 but everybody must govern; in art, nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
— 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.

The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
— 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.

“Si, diciamolo altamente, Pio ix. credette aver ricevuto speciale missione di definire la Immacolata Concezione e la infallibilita pontificia.”
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

In that which he considers the first, containing thirty-nine cuts, each leaf is printed on one side only by means of friction; in the other, which contains thirty-eight cuts, is the “brief-maler’s” or wood-engraver’s name: “ Der jung hanss priffmaler hat das puch zu nurenberg, 1472 .”
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

In Christian Ethics love is primal and central.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

It was insinuated that his chief excellence lay in portrait-painting.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

[75] C.S. Curionis Epist., lib. i. p. 11, cited by Bonnet.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Hard cash is a matter which concerns every landlord in Paris.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac