All the rest she has stored in his mind as a sort of reserve, to be drawn upon at need.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"I dreamed that a fountain in a market-place from which wine once flowed was dried up, and not even water would flow out of it; what is the cause of it?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

All Greek states, except those perversions which Aristotle criticises as being "above law," worked under rigid constitutions, and the constitution was only changed when the whole people gave a commission to a lawgiver to draw up a new one.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

I remember, when I was at Lilliput, the complexions of those diminutive people appeared to me the fairest in the world; and talking upon this subject with a person of learning there, who was an intimate friend of mine, he said that my face appeared much fairer and smoother when he looked on me from the ground than it did upon a nearer view, when I took him up in my hand and brought him close, which he confessed was at first a very shocking sight.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

Two freshly-gathered sheaves of areca-palm blossom (each several feet in length) were deposited upon a new mat, near a tray containing a censer and the three kinds of sacrificial rice.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

And to which class do unity and number belong?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But something new is drawing us apart now.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If there be heavy rains, the dweller on the higher ground must not recklessly suffer the water to flow down upon a neighbour beneath him, nor must he who lives upon lower ground or dwells in an adjoining house refuse an outlet.
— from Laws by Plato

multae sunt gentes quae tantum de facie sciunt coelum, veniet, tempus fortasse, quo ista quae, nunc latent in lucem dies extrahat longioris aevi diligentia, una aetas non sufficit, posteri , &c., when God sees his time, he will reveal these mysteries to mortal men, and show that to some few at last, which he hath concealed so long.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Once I asked Pa why Ma didn't give her some sewing to do, and he said for me to dry up and never speak to her if I met her on the street.
— from The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The Dominie understood and nodded.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Papers are suppressed there every day, and spring up the next day under a new name.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The wonder and glory of the idea they dilate upon are not the less for the fact that we should entertain no doubt of its truth.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

He drew up a note for four hundred dollars at six months, and I signed it.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

Shortly after Bishop Heber's "Letter," which I have referred to at the commencement of these remarks, he drew up a number of questions regarding caste practices amongst native Christians, to which he required special answers.
— from Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot

'Dug up a newt He may have envied once And turned to stone, shut up inside a stone.
— from Browning's Shorter Poems by Robert Browning

His owner was trying to induce other collie-fanciers to make their dogs useful and not just Show-exhibits.
— from Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

Come, dear splendid old fellow, cheer up, do us a new successful novel, and think of those who love you, and whose hearts are saddened and torn by your discouragements.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

It is, indeed, only when we have detected this fallacy, when we have become clearly aware of the unique object which is meant by ‘good,’ that we are able to give to Hedonism the precise definition used above, ‘Nothing is good but pleasure’: and it may, therefore, be objected that, in attacking this doctrine under the name of Hedonism, I am attacking a doctrine which has never really been held.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore