It is usually this sort of fellow who likes to insult people; for, as Seneca[1] rightly remarks, ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita solutissimae est , the more contemptible and ridiculous a man is,—the readier he is with his tongue.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Taxando et ab his deterrendo humanam lasciviam et insaniam, sed et remedia docendo: non igitur candidus lector nobis succenseat, &c. Commonitio erit juvenibus haec, hisce ut abstineant magis, et omissa lascivia quae homines reddit insanos, virtutis incumbant studiis (Aeneas Sylv.)
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

How quickly and freshly it brought back to her mind the friend who had given it, and his conversations with her, and the resolve she had made; and again Ellen's whole heart offered the prayer she had repeated many times that day— "Open my heart, Lord, enter in; Slay every foe, and conquer sin."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Act of August 31, 1852, allowed letters enclosed in stamped envelopes to be sent out of the mail.
— from The American Postal Service History of the Postal Service from the Earliest Times by Louis Melius

He proposes to buy a large estate in some eligible part of the world, where land is cheap, where the climate is healthy, and where all that is wanted to develop the fruits of the earth, and to ensure health and happiness to the people, is human labour.
— from Crying for the Light; Or, Fifty Years Ago. Vol. 3 [of 3] by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

What would John, the stylish waiter at Uncle Ralph's, think if he could see her now, and how funny Abbie would look engaged in such employment; but Sadie looked so bright and relieved and rested, and chatted so gayly, that presently Ester gave another little sigh and said: "Poor Abbie!
— from Ester Ried by Pansy

“It's lucky I've got a little extra income,” said Ebenezer, bitterly; “now I've got your bills to pay.”
— from Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Lillie Ellis is so entirely out of the line of any of the women he has ever known.”
— from Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

All consider the soul is a sort of air balloon, which cannot mount and attain its last end in space except by throwing away its ballast.
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

hic fontis lacus est, illic sinus egerit algas: haec statio est tacitis fida cupidinibus.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler