After hearing me, follow my advice immediately; but ask no questions, for I can answer none.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The first is certainly a necessary constituent part of it, but in the same way as bravery, which is a natural gift in some men, may arise in a soldier as a part of an Army from habit and custom, so with him it must also have a different direction from that which it has with others.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Great Soorasen, his ancestor, And Dyoumatsen his father blind Are known to fame: I can aver No kings have been so good and kind."
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

[Pg 417] as for initiation ceremonies; and nothing makes it impossible for them to have been in times of need also places for refuge against enemies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

"You need have no fear of Miss Fairlie," I continued, "and no fear of getting into trouble through the letter.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

To divide a little this incumbrance among my friends, I caused a number of similar tubes to be blown at our glass-house, with which they furnish'd themselves, so that we had at length several performers.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Poverty, chastity, humility, obedience, self-sacrifice, ignorance, sickness, and dirt may all acquire a religious worth which reason, in its direct application, might scarcely have found in them; yet these reversed appreciations are merely incidental to a secret rationality, and are justified on the ground that human nature, as now found, is corrupt and needs to be purged and transformed before it can safely manifest its congenital instincts and become again an authoritative criterion of values.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In fact it caught a number of the more timid prominent men, especially the elderly ones of the ultraconservative element preferring submission to strife.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I will say no more; for I can add nothing to what I have already said, to what you before contemptuously set aside.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A great flood of color filled Iris' cheeks, a new light darted into her eyes.
— from A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade

This it derived immediately from its constituents and not from any patrons, lords, or close corporations.
— from The Wars Between England and America by Theodore Clarke Smith

And from the depth of her unsophisticated heart Mrs. Buchanan had evolved a course of action that had gone far in comforting a number of the lonely years through which Phoebe Donelson had waded.
— from Andrew the Glad by Maria Thompson Daviess

However these dialects might differ, they formed in combination a new language, distinct from the parent stock of Rustic Latin, and equally distinct from French and Spanish.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

In reality the eye imagines that it sees more than what actually takes place; it imagines that the blade of the fork is kicking spasmodically and viciously, whereas in fact the extent of the movement to and fro is constant and never changes.
— from Practical Cinematography and Its Applications by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

"For I came, and no man would receive me, I called and none would hear.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

When Englishmen had spent a measure of their force in creating a nation of shopkeepers, there was still enough of buoyant and exuberant strength left to elaborate an art of government which has affected the history of the world; and the truly characteristic part of the mediæval story is that which enables us to measure the political genius with which the forerunners of our modern democracy shaped schemes of administration for the societies they had created of free workers.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

I replied, that whenever the weather is foggy I walk in clouds, and [Pg 208] when the fog is condensed, and no longer supported in the air, it immediately rains.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

The blessed apostle St. Paul, who suffered so many perils and so many passions, saith of himself that he hath been "in many labours, in prisons oftener than others, in stripes above measure, at point of death often times; of the Jews had I five times forty stripes save one, thrice have I been beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been in shipwreck, a day and a night was I in the depth of the sea; in my journeys oft have I been in peril of floods, in peril of thieves, in peril by the Jews, in perils by the pagans, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, perils by false brethren, in labour and misery, in many nights' watch, in hunger and thirst, in many fastings, in cold and nakedness; beside those things that are outward, my daily instant labour, I mean my care and solicitude about all the churches," and yet saith he more of his tribulations, which for the length I let pass.
— from Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by More, Thomas, Saint

__ Argentina (wild tansey) growes the most in the fallowes in Coteswold, and North Wilts adjoyning, that I ever saw.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey