Dantur quidem bonis , saith Austin, ne quis mala aestimet: mails autem ne quis nimis bona , good men have wealth that we should not think, it evil; and bad men that they should not rely on or hold it so good; as the rain falls on both sorts, so are riches given to good and bad, sed bonis in bonum , but they are good only to the godly.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

We had water batteries and forts on both sides of the Hellespont, flying the crimson flag of Turkey, with its white crescent, and occasionally a village, and sometimes a train of camels; we had all these to look at till we entered the broad sea of Marmora, and then the land soon fading from view, we resumed euchre and whist once more.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Gnekker and the girls talk of fugues and counter-fugues; singers and pianists, Bach and Brahms, and my wife, frightened of being suspected of musical ignorance, smiles sympathetically and murmurs: "Wonderful....
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To the awe of all beholders, Lahiri Mahasaya's habitual physiological state exhibited the superhuman features of breathlessness, sleeplessness, cessation of pulse and heartbeat, calm eyes unblinking for hours, and a profound aura of peace.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

XIV But full of fire and greedy hardiment, The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide, 120 But forth unto the darksome hole he went, And looked in: his glistring armor made A litle glooming light, much like a shade, By which he saw the ugly monster ° plaine, Halfe like a serpent horribly displaide, 125
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

Meanwhile, as the winter was not the season, I was the only lodger, and the younger had only me to attend to; her name was Jane; she was but a little thing, but very well made, good bubbies and bottom, which I soon discovered were firm and hard, projecting fully on both sides.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Veritas vel mendacio corrumpitur vel silentio —Truth is violated by falsehood or by silence.
— 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 golden stature 210 of their feather'd bird, 211 That spreads her wings upon the city-walls, Shall not defend it from our battering shot:
— from Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

The fact is, a generous man is always made a fool of by some woman or other, and this one had such an influence over me that she could turn me round her finger.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

This phenomenon is therefore composed of two parts: an action exercised from outside by some body or other on our nervous substance; and, then, the fact of feeling this action.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

There we tried to intercept the swallow-like flight of big sulphur and orange butterflies, though never with success.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

The novelty of all around and the amusement he found at first seemed to make him forget our being strangers.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Three weeks after the commencement of the siege,—on the 30th of May,—the English sentinel on duty announced, that a fleet of boats, supposed to contain a supply of provisions and a reinforcement of troops from Niagara, was coming round "the point," at a place called the Huron Church.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 2 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

About noon, the consul ordered the signal of retreat to be given, and thus the battle ended for that day, after considerable numbers had fallen on both sides.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

The land was full of black swamps, surrounding fiery forts, and fiery mountains, over which demons were dragging the souls of the lost, without respite.
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell

The walls, with frescoes by Mantegna, representing feats of bygone San Stefanos, supported a cupola which, painted with sky and clouds, appeared as though it were open to the outer air and which was surrounded by groups of cupids and nymphs looking down from a balustrade.
— from The Inevitable by Louis Couperus