Formosior auri massa , as [4513] he well observed, the mass of gold is fairer than all your Grecian pictures, that Apelles, Phidias, or any doting painter could ever make: we are enamoured with it, [4514] Prima fere vota, et cunctis notissima templis, Divitiae ut crescant.——— All our labours, studies, endeavours, vows, prayers and wishes, are to get, how to compass it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The subscribers, to carry the project into immediate execution, chose out of their number twenty-four trustees, and appointed Mr. Francis, [86] then attorney-general, and myself to draw up constitutions for the government of the academy; which being done and signed, a house was hired, masters engag'd, and the schools opened, I think, in the same year, 1749.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

For, as the whole earth consists of many lands, and the Church universal of many churches, so death universal consists of all deaths.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We dressed up Chamberlayne in woman's clothes, on purpose to pass for a lady,—only think what fun!
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

When Heathcliff is in, I’m often obliged to seek the kitchen and their society, or starve among the damp uninhabited chambers; when he is not, as was the case this week, I establish a table and chair at one corner of the house fire, and never mind how Mr. Earnshaw may occupy himself; and he does not interfere with my arrangements.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to the good government of what he fancied the island; and he ordained that there were to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it came from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality, reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A smart gown lay on the bed in the low chamber, also various decorations upon chair and table, suggesting that some festival was afloat; and a few questions elicited the facts.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

Individuals and communities with gardens or wherever fresh products can be obtained should not be dependent upon commercial agencies.
— from Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover by Frances Lucy Swain

It was much pleasanter to attribute these crimes to desperate men from elsewhere, descending upon Chicago like raiders and leaving the city again as soon as possible.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

The story of this horse hardly needs repetition, but briefly it is to the effect that soon after Hector's death Ulysses commanded Epeios to construct a wooden horse of great size that ostensibly was to be used as an offering to the gods to please them and thus ensure a safe voyage back to Greece.
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer

So was the spectacle of the immeasurable ridges and fields, gulfs and avalanches, heights and depths, unfathomable chasms and impassable precipices, of ice and snow, of such dazzling whiteness, of such endless extent, in such gigantic masses.
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin

Andy went on talking to him and said something that woke Nick Danson up completely.
— from The Sex Life of the Gods by M. E. (Michael E.) Knerr

"— Goethe . { 54} V PROPER HABITS AND METHODS OF WORK ( a ) SELECT THE BEST BOOK FOR YOUR PURPOSES AND STUDY IT THOROUGHLY.—The best book for your purposes will depend upon circumstances.
— from How to Study by George Fillmore Swain