He was the angel of the flower; for a tiny man and a tiny woman dwell in every flower; and this was the king of them all.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

One day is enough for a man to know all happiness.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But when a penalty, is either annexed to the Crime in the Law it selfe, or hath been usually inflicted in the like cases; there the Delinquent is Excused from a greater penalty.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Desperate Lackalls, long prowling aimless, now finding hope in desperation itself, everywhere form a nucleus.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

—Antiquity mentions that Stagyrite schoolurchin and bald heathen sage, Stephen said, who when dying in exile frees and endows his slaves, pays tribute to his elders, wills to be laid in earth near the bones of his dead wife and bids his friends be kind to an old mistress (don’t forget Nell Gwynn Herpyllis) and let her live in his villa.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Thus did I escape frolic and lively, gramercy roastmeat and cookery.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I never seriously settled myself to the reading any book of solid learning but Plutarch and Seneca; and there, like the Danaides, I eternally fill, and it as constantly runs out; something of which drops upon this paper, but little or nothing stays with me.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Indeed the Athenian army fell victims to death in every form, and suffered all the vicissitudes of flight; the survivors escaped with difficulty to the sea and Oeneon in Locris, whence they had set out.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Good nature and common sense are required from all people; but one proud distinction is enough for any one individual to possess or to aspire to.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

Without alarming those mothers, who declare themselves [Pg 110] above all things anxious for the rapid progress of their daughters in every fashionable accomplishment, it may be innocently asked, what price such mothers are willing to pay for these advantages .
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

I wished to settle down in England for a time and from all I had heard I thought Norfolk the most suitable locality.
— from Stolen Idols by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

My father oft will tell me of a drink In England found, and Nipitato call'd, Which driveth all the sorrow from your hearts.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher

Besides the "popish trinkets" they were found to contain a number of "seditious pamphlets," printed abroad for distribution in England; for at this time the College at Douai, under its founder Dr. William Allen, late Principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, was active in the production of literature; these were chiefly commentaries on the Bull; as well as exhortations to the Catholics to stand firm and to persevere in recusancy, and to the schismatic Catholics, as they were called, to give over attending the services in the parish churches.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

The loyalty of Englishmen is not of that sort which would induce them to sacrifice their liberties to please their prince, nor does it ever, for a moment, blind them to a keen sense of their own interests.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Captain Horn's discovery and winning of the treasure may differ accidentally, but do not differ in essence, from a thousand true tales of commercial triumph in the great Central Plain or on the Pacific Slope.
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

That she should decline again to be party to any such plan seemed to him altogether improbable, since all she had to do to insure them both comfort was to return home like a sensible woman, put on the best clothes she possessed—the more attractive the better, and she certainly was fetching in that wrapper—and be reasonably polite to such of his friends as chose to drop in evenings for a quiet game of cards.
— from Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith

He might have been a changeling, so much did he differ in everything from any Mackinnon among them.
— from The Last of Their Race by Annie S. Swan