et sapere ipsi Jovi non datur , as Seneca holds, Jupiter himself cannot love and be wise both together; the very best of them, if once they be overtaken with this passion, the most staid, discreet, grave, generous and wise, otherwise able to govern themselves, in this commit many absurdities, many indecorums, unbefitting their gravity and persons.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Plain Jane, no damn nonsense.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

O my friend, I said, do not attack the multitude: they will change their minds, if, not in an aggressive spirit, but gently and with the view of soothing them and removing their dislike of over-education, you show them your philosophers as they really are and describe as you were just now doing their character and profession, and then mankind will see that he of whom you are speaking is not such as they supposed—if they view him in this new light, they will surely change their notion of him, and answer in another strain.
— from The Republic by Plato

‘Yes; they would have been jealous, no doubt.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

My book was burned there, and on the 18th of June, nine days after an order to arrest me had been given at Paris, another to the same effect was determined upon by the republic.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Impossible" est un mot que je ne dis jamais —"Impossible" is a word which I never utter.
— 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.

She would need that bread for her long journey next day, and did not mean that it should be taken from her, by accident or otherwise.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant

"We won't go any further just now," declared the captain.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks; or, Two Recruits in the United States Army by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

She did not go home, however, but just next door to Katherine's house.
— from All About Johnnie Jones by Carolyn Verhoeff

Mrs. Jameson classes her, and justly, no doubt, among those women—and she assures us there are many such—who seem regardless of the feelings of those for whom they would sacrifice their life.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

Because this was not done, we Jews now deny, there was any Miracle wrought; and, whether our Unbelief upon this Circumstance be not well grounded, we appeal to Christian Priests themselves, who must own, that if there was a Miracle here, the Matter was ill conducted by Jesus , or foolishly related by his Evangelist ."
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

I was rather thinking of my mother, who had taken such good care of me, and who had so well succeeded in keeping away from my thoughts those impure forms of sin, the thoughts of which had just now defiled my heart.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

"Yes, perhaps these white men deserved dogs—even Peetka's!" Kurilla limped back to his place, but turned to the Ingaliks before he sat down, and bending painfully over his stick, "Not Kurilla," he said, as though speaking of one absent—"not Dall make so great journey, no dogs.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins

“Those detectives who came aboard just now did not look as though they felt very comfortable.
— from Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie; Or, Great Times in the Land of Cotton by Alice B. Emerson

There will be the Judge, no doubt; but English judges are always favourable to convictions.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

I tells you de truth, Jim never did work much.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration