'Hereat Helenus, first suing for divine favour with fit sacrifice of steers, and unbinding from his head the chaplets of consecration, leads me in his hand to thy courts, O Phoebus, thrilled with the fulness of the deity, and then utters these prophetic words from his augural lips: '"Goddess-born: since there is clear assurance that under high omens thou dost voyage through the deep; so the king of the gods allots destiny and unfolds change; this is the circle of ordinance; a few things out of many I will unfold to thee in speech, that so thou mayest more safely traverse the seas of thy sojourn, and find rest in the Ausonian haven; for Helenus is forbidden by the destinies to know, and by Juno daughter of Saturn to utter more: first of all, the Italy thou deemest now nigh, and close at hand, unwitting!
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

It takes a good deal of success to unscrew my reason and make it totter on its throne.
— from Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition by Bill Nye

All their qualms had been in the direction of swallowing the unpalatable measure, not of doubting its efficacy.
— from The Secret of the League: The Story of a Social War by Ernest Bramah

A veil shall be thrown over many scenes of brutality that I was forced to witness, but which I will not force upon the reader; neither will I intrude anything that is not actually necessary in the description of scenes that unfortunately must be passed through in the journey now before us.
— from The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The divine ordinances seem to us more precious than ever while we sit under the juniper-tree.
— from Bible Emblems by Edward Eli Seelye