as gifted with supernatural attributes, you roam the universe with marvellous speed, there is no place unknown to you.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

M. Nec scire fas est omnia —It is not permitted us to know all things.
— 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 ear-boring ceremony ( bĕrtindek ) appears to have already lost much of its ceremonial character in Selangor, where I was told that it is now usually performed when the child is quite small, i.e. at the earliest, when the child is some five or seven months old, and when it is about a year old at the latest, whereas in Sumatra (according to Marsden) it is not performed until the child is eight or nine.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

There is no power under the stars that can defeat a man with that attitude.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Give me virtue to be strengthened with might in the inner man, and to free my heart from all fruitless care and trouble, and that I be not drawn away by various desires after any things whatsoever, whether of little value or great, but that I may look upon all as passing away, and myself as passing away with them; because there is no profit under the sun, and all is vanity and vexation of spirit.(1)
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Nay, indeed, the danger concerns not those Jews that dwell here only, but those of them which dwell in other cities also; for there is no people upon the habitable earth which have not some portion of you among them, whom your enemies will slay, in case you go to war, and on that account also; and so every city which hath Jews in it will be filled with slaughter for the sake of a few men, and they who slay them will be pardoned; but if that slaughter be not made by them, consider how wicked a thing it is to take arms against those that are so kind to you.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Then I turned to all my works that my hands had wrought and to the worry wherewith I had wearied myself, and behold, all was vanity and a grasping of wind; and there is no profit under the sun.
— from The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur by Emile Joseph Dillon

The solidity of the extremities, however, is not perfect until the horns have arrived at their full growth.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

If the Scarlet Hunter comes not, and thy life faileth for misery, and none comprehending thy state offereth his life, that thy soul may be free once more—then thou shalt gladly die, and, yielding thine own body, shall purchase back thy soul; but this is not possible until thou hast dwelt here a year and a day.”
— from Parables of a Province by Gilbert Parker

[“It is not permitted us to degrade one single soul for the sake of conferring advantage on others, nor to make a rogue for the good of the honest.”
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It is because they wish some one being to exist, who shall be the resting place and summit of their love; and this in human nature is not possible, unless the two affections coincide.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But, while it is natural, perhaps unavoidable, that I should feel thus, thou art not necessarily to forget the other claims upon thee.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

There is very little hope of any considerable permanent improvement of the idiot, if not placed under training before his sixteenth year.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The first cut showed the station in its normal position upon the surface of the ocean; the second showed it partially submerged, during a storm, and the third gave a cross-section of its interior.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller