La loi ne saurait égaliser les hommes malgré la nature —The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature.
— 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.

In amore haec insunt vitia, Suspiciones, inimicitiae, audaciae, Bellum, pax rursum, &c. [5301] Insomnia, aerumna, error, terror, et fuga, Excogitantia excors immodestia, Petulantia, cupiditas, et malevolentia; Inhaeret etiam aviditas, desidia, injuria, Inopia, contumelia et dispendium, &c. In love these vices are; suspicions.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But I never could express my ideas except with my tongue; and there I feel tolerably at home.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Pero sostengo que en la ciudad está mi implacable y fiero enemigo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In his address to the reader, he says:— Accedunt, quas priùs Delibationes Civiles et Morales inscripserat; Quas etiam in Linguas plurimas
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

'Speaking now,' returned Mortimer, 'with the irresponsible imbecility of a private individual, and not with the profundity of a professional adviser, I should say that if the circumstance of its being too much, weighs upon your mind, you have the haven of consolation open to you that you can easily make it less.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

[ 122 ] anche alguna parte de dela caſa ſua coſi ne referite Lo medeſimo re ſe gondo lo ſue coſtume era molto in ordine et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Chapter 1.III.—How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother’s belly.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

We had a delicious cuddle, and I promised to come every morning I could do so with safety.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Fraudes hominum et ingeniorum capturae, officinas invenere istas, in quibus sua cuique venalis promittitur vita; statim compositiones et mixturae inexplicabiles ex Arabia et India, ulceri parvo medicina a rubro mari importatur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Miss Ella M. Andrews, one of the teachers at Williamsburg Academy, which is one of the interesting schools among our American Highlanders, has been an efficient leader in the Christian Endeavor movement in that school and village.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 02, April, 1900 by Various

He was hemmed in by curious eyes, mobbed in the streets, stared at in his own private rooms, interviewed by the hour, shaken by the hand till his arm must often have been ready to drop off, waylaid at every turn with formal addresses.
— from Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir

The Chief Executive Magistrate is charged with the execution of the laws; is commander-in-chief of the militia; has the sole power of appointment to offices, civil and military, within the Territory, and the removal of these officers at pleasure; is vested with an unqualified veto on all bills passed by the other co-ordinate branches of the Legislature; and is, moreover, clothed with the odious and arbitrary authority to prorogue and dissolve the General Assembly whenever, in his opinion, it shall be expedient.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

You can easily mend it."
— from Dorothy Dale: A Girl of To-Day by Margaret Penrose

I was forced to confess that I had no ear for music; and he, in order to try me, sang in a sort [103] of song-whisper some melodies, which I certainly enjoyed more, I thought, than anything I had heard from him on the stage.'
— from Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter H. (Walter Hawken) Tregellas

Indeed, the prevalent belief that the savage's mode of life was much nearer the truth than that of civilised Europeans, made it appear superfluous to enter into the grievances and difficulties of what was but a passing phase of human development.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

He came each morning in his mother's arms, and a turnkey carried him in to the prisoner, before which inconvenient witness the poor little thing played his role with all the skill of a consummate actor.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

If such changes have occurred within four or five hundred years, the gulf which divides ancient and modern music must be deep and wide; and the latter, having little visible connection or known sympathy with the former, and originating in Christian Europe, must inevitably owe much of its character to Catholic civilization.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Her councillors begged that she would marry, and at last she told them that she would do so, if they would find for her the prince she should describe, he should be so rich that he should esteem all the treasures of the Indies as a little dust; so wise that no man could ever mention in his presence aught that he did not already know; so fair that no child of man should compare with him in beauty; so spotless in his soul that the very heavens should not be pure in his sight.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various