Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, / Nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, / Si modo culturæ patientem commodet aurem —The envious, the passionate, the indolent, the drunken, the lewd—none is so savage that he cannot be tamed, if he only lend a patient ear to culture.
— 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.

The pride and arrogance of so many foreign pomps, the inflated majesty of so many courts and grandeurs, accustom and fortify our sight without closing our eyes to behold the lustre of our own; so many trillions of men, buried before us, encourage us not to fear to go seek such good company in the other world: and so of the rest Pythagoras was want to say,—[Cicero, Tusc.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The lands which our fore-fathers rented have enabled us never to acknowledge ourselves servants of others.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

But though there be a time when a child comes to be as free from subjection to the will and command of his father, as the father himself is free from subjection to the will of any body else, and they are each under no other restraint, but that which is common to them both, whether it be the law of nature, or municipal law of their country; yet this freedom exempts not a son from that honour which he ought, by the law of God and nature, to pay his parents.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Internet est un nouveau type de ressource utilisable pour chercher, produire et stocker des connaissances, à ce titre les activités de formation et de recherche ne peuvent l'ignorer.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Spanheim (de Praestantia et Usu Numismatum, tom. ii. dissert.
— 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

Rites et usages nuptiaux en Ukraine.
— from The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

‘It seems to me,’ he says, ‘that except when they read Shakespeare, Byron, or Sterne, no Englishman understands “ nuances ”; we adore them.
— from A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde

Turning out like ending up no check-out time or non-existant room service in a flea-bag motel.
— from Sympathetic Magic by Paul Cameron Brown

“If you only knew what sleepless nights you’ve entailed upon Nashby.
— from The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford

While, therefore, there are neither novel social advantages nor any emotional urgency, nor yet intellectual inducements, to persuade women to marry, there are other circumstances which urge her strongly not to do so.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

There are no banns, no licenses, no consent of parents even, usually necessary, and persons who are of the age of discretion, which, as respects females and matrimony, is a very tender age indeed, may be married, if they see fit, almost without form or ceremony.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

I am sure you vill go more easy, und not vork so much.
— from Tom Swift and His Sky Racer; Or, The Quickest Flight on Record by Victor Appleton

From his hidden camp he must have made frequent visits to the great Highland centers, purchasing scientific equipment: until now, when his path crossed mine.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

[15] ” Although entirely relinquished, at present, perhaps in this country, the mode of female equestrianism under notice continues to prevail in various other localities.
— from The Young Lady's Equestrian Manual by Anonymous