For my part, what I should not believe from one, I should not believe from a hundred and one: and I do not judge opinions by years.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I am very glad to find the way beaten before me by others I am very willing to quit the government of my house I bequeath to Areteus the maintenance of my mother I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy than any virtue I cannot well refuse to play with my dog I content myself with enjoying the world without bustle I dare not promise but that I may one day be so much a fool I do not consider what it is now, but what it was then I do not judge opinions by years
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This reflection was, of course, a just one, but yet it was bitter and mortifying; why was the order of the world so strange, that life, which is given to man only once, passes away without benefit?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"There's nothing more," Hsi Jen observed; "but you must in everything exercise a little more diligence, and not indulge your caprices and allow your wishes to run riot, and you'll be all right.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Ah, the joy, the joy of Being!" "You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

"You judge others by yourself, my dearest.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

Sooner than I expected, the nurse came back with a jug of beautiful yeast, smelling as fresh as daybreak.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Like our Motley's John of Barnveld, you have always been inclined To speak,—well,—somewhat
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

" "You have resolved the problem," said the legislator; "and your own consent has established this first truth: "That whenever objects can be examined and judged of by your senses, you are agreed in opinion; and that you only differ when the objects are absent and beyond your reach.
— from The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by C.-F. (Constantin-François) Volney

“Judging others by yourself, after the manner of older people, eh?” “Yes, sir; and I’d like to know what’s going to be done to-day.”
— from Elsie at Ion by Martha Finley

But I think I shall make greater progress in the spirit world, and be better fitted to journey on beside you there, if I die knowing you are my wife.
— from Mal Moulée: A Novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

They say that, though the Sanhedrim had convicted Jesus of blasphemy, yet they dared not execute that sentence, for fear of a sedition of the people:—that they therefore craftily determined to throw on Pilate the odium of his destruction, by accusing him of treason; and hence, after condemning him, they consulted further, as stated in Matt.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

"I'll never say a word against jolly old Brigham Young after this!"
— from Bones in London by Edgar Wallace

“It’s only fair you should have a chance,” Jack observed; “but you can see what risk there always is in one of the clumsy little punkin-seed boats, when handling a big fish.”
— from Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence Or, Solving the Mystery of the Thousand Islands by Louis Arundel

these two figures placed in such grand and dramatic contrast;—Christ in His serene majesty, and radiant with all the joy of beatitude, yet with an expression of gentle reproach; the Apostle at his feet arrested in his flight, amazed, and yet filled with a trembling joy; and for the background the wide Campagna, or towering walls of imperial Rome."— Mrs. Jameson.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare