"An infinite number, indeed, by Jupiter!" said Simmias. "Is not, then," he said, "something of this sort a kind of reminiscence, especially when one is thus affected with respect to things which, from lapse of time, and not thinking of them, one has now forgotten?" "Certainly," he replied.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

These beads have been given to me, one by one, by those whom I have helped or taught by the way; for, little one, thou art not the first whose hand has been laid in mine; and I have strung them together as a fit offering for him to whom we go.'
— from Bessie in the City by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

Thirteen years after, his unslumbering memory made this an illustrating point in an exhortation to a first lord of the admiralty not to disregard small outgoings.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

"You are a man," returns his monitor, quoting the famous line of Terence; "and nothing that belongs to any other man ought to be indifferent to you."
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

And not all the concessions of Earl Spencer, as First lord of the Admiralty, nor the threats and entreaties of Lord Bridport, the Admiral of the Fleet—no, nor his gracious Majesty's plenary pardon in prospective, could prevail upon the Spithead mutineers (when at last fairly lashed up to the mark) to succumb, until deserted by their own mess-mates, and a handful was left in the breach.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

They could not say, in the frightful language of the antinomian, Now that we are delivered, we may conduct ourselves as we please.
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh