If I were king, I promise you that in my kingdom no one would ever strike a man or call him a liar, and yet I would do without all those useless laws against duels; the means are simple and require no law courts.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No, I do not love the great cities and their noise, towns peopled with strangers where no one knows you and where you know no one, where each one jostles and elbows the other without ever exchanging a smile.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Had I been present, my worth would never have been known, no one would even have suspected it; thus it was with Madam Dupin, a woman of sense, in whose house I lived for several years; indeed, she has often since owned it to me: though on the whole this rule may be subject to some exceptions.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We know no other words except 'Our Father,'
— from Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy

Whether the sea had been curious about the ark no one knows, no one will ever know.
— from The Magic City by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Pretty young widows of small endowment, whose chances you would back at long odds, are handicapped against plain-featured widows, whose desolation you know no one would ever ask to relieve were it not for those Three per cents.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

It was your idea that if Cameron was killed no one would ever be able to detect the substitution of the false will for the original one.
— from Boy Scouts in Mexico; Or, On Guard with Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

I know no other way, especially as it always succeeds.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

And what is more, I know no one who ever did!
— from The Rhymer by Allan McAulay

But finally, for an ethical generalisation, we require to know not only what effects will be produced, but also what are the comparative values of those effects; and on this question too, it must be admitted, considering what a prevalent opinion Hedonism has been, that we are very liable to be mistaken.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

I know no one who even is acquainted with him; and I believe none but his wife and various members of the government are admitted to see him alone.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James