Voluptates commendat rarior usus —Pleasures are enhanced that are sparingly enjoyed.
— 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.

Demosthenes at once urged them to fortify the place, it being for this that he had come on the voyage, and made them observe there was plenty of stone and timber on the spot, and that the place was strong by nature, and together with much of the country round unoccupied; Pylos, or Coryphasium, as the Lacedaemonians call it, being about forty-five miles distant from Sparta, and situated in the old country of the Messenians.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

[4] The Bible and Aristocracy take a cruel revenge upon people who believe that duty is everything.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The sun was just rising as the march began—it was a gallant sight—the band led the column, playing the regimental march—then came the Major in command, riding upon Pyramus, his stout charger—then marched the grenadiers, their Captain at their head; in the centre were the colours, borne by the senior and junior Ensigns—then George came marching at the head of his company.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

For on the other bank of the great river I saw men and women and children rising up pure and bright, and the tears were wiped from their eyes, and they put on glory and strength, and all weariness and pain fell away.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

C. Rome under Political Factions and under the Monarchy (Thirty-nine Books).
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

‘Thank you, Master Copperfield,’ returned Uriah, putting his book away upon the shelf—‘I suppose you stop here, some time, Master Copperfield?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Note 129 ( return ) [ Constantia, primis a cunabulis in deliciarun tuarum affluentia diutius educata, tuisque institutis, doctrinus et moribus informata, tandem opibus tuis Barbaros delatura discessit: et nunc cum imgentibus copiis revertitur, ut pulcherrima nutricis ornamenta barbarica foeditate contaminet ....
— 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

2. Cemetery Ridge (Union position).
— from Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania by Frederick Tilberg

As far back as Polly could remember, Uncle Peter had been as much a part of the garden at Glenwood as the old elms that bordered the garden, and she had always considered him a remarkable authority on all subjects.
— from The Polly Page Ranch Club by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

Devereux must have divined his thoughts, or probably observed the irregular and faltering steps he was making, for, seizing him by the arm, he exclaimed, with judicious roughness— “Come, rouse up, Paul, my dear fellow!
— from Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

Meantime, as the hour for the morning train drew near, Carrie, resting upon pillows, and whiter than the linen which covered them, strained her ears to catch the first sound of the locomotive.
— from Homestead on the Hillside by Mary Jane Holmes

Yale could rely upon President Dwight, Harvard upon President Eliot, and Princeton upon President McCosh.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

There are endless "alarums and excursions"; some of the not explained supernatural; woods, caves, ruins, underground passages—entirely at discretion.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Among the company was sure to be one or more of the most famous artists from the opera at Covent Garden, and from these experts his own leadership and the performance of his perfectly trained company received unstinted praise and applause.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

Its conclusions rest upon proof, rather than upon subjective principles of valuation.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge

And so it did to Job, as, after a long ride with Tony in the buckboard down the Frost Creek road, up past Mike Hennessy's, down and up and across Rattlesnake Gulch, and over the heavily timbered mountain, a bend in the road brought him in full view of the Yellow Jacket on the bare hillside opposite.
— from The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher

The old Platonic philosophers have done you some good; but you have a faith too childlike, a complete reliance upon Providence quite too unreasoning, for a man of your ability.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various