In order to throw an odium on political connection, those politicians suppose it a necessary incident to it, that you are blindly to follow the opinions of your party, when in direct opposition to your own clear ideas; a degree of servitude that no worthy man could bear the thought of submitting to; and such as, I believe, no connections (except some court factions) ever could be so senselessly tyrannical as to impose.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

"If you were a statesman in a corner, for example, time rushing up against you, something urgent to be done, eh?" "He could dose his private secretary," I said.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But Jove's high counsels full effect shall find; And, ever constant, ever rule mankind.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“If you divide that into eight parts there will be half a crown for each of, you,” he said.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Yet, in the judgment of the few who could discriminate counsels from events, and compare the instruments with the execution, he appeared a more consummate master of the art of war, than in the season of his prosperity, when he presented two captive kings before the throne of Justinian.
— 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

A cry from every mouth will burst And all the world will hold me curst, Because I saw my high-souled son Unkinged, unfathered, and undone; “The king by power of love beguiled Is weaker than a foolish child, His own beloved son to make An exile for a woman's sake.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then rose the king and spake to all the Table Round, and charged them to be ever true and noble knights, to do neither outrage nor murder, nor any unjust violence, and always to flee treason; also by no means ever to be cruel, but give mercy unto him that asked for mercy, upon pain of forfeiting the liberty of his court for evermore.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

J. H. Fuessli, Remarks on the Writings and Conduct of Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1767; Staël-Holstein (Baroness de Rocco), Letters on the Work and Character of Jean Jacques Rousseau (translation), 1789, 1814; J. Morley, Rousseau, 1873, 1886; H. G. Graham, Rousseau (Foreign Classics for English Readers), 1882; T. Davidson, Rousseau and Education according to Nature (Great Educators), vol.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When the train stopped at Cleveland for eats, he was dead to the world.
— from Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

"I declare, I must have looked as bad as a magazine artist sitting there without any money and my hair all rumpled like I was booked to read a chapter from 'Elsie's School Days' at a Brooklyn Bohemian smoker.
— from Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry

She seldom professes to board the girls, generally making a charge for every visitor they entertain, and giving them the privilege of cooking any thing they want.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

We were stacked in tiers along the walls, 3 rows of them, 30 to 40 centimeters for each of us.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

Nothing surprises the natives more than the perpetual craving for exercise that characterizes Europeans.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

The defeat of the powerful Spanish Armada in 1588 was a dramatic harbinger of things to come; the way was clear for England to extend its control of the seas.
— from Castillo de San Marcos A Guide to Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, Florida by United States. National Park Service

If a caller wishes to be very formal, she leaves a card for every lady in the family on whom she wishes to call.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

Palma, contract for Exchange at, 514 .
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

She had no material anxiety for the future, for although she did not mean to accept a penny from her husband after she had left him, she knew it would be easy for her to take up her nursing again; and she knew also that her hospital connections would enable her to find work in a part of the country far enough distant to remove her entirely from his life.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton