Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied et cueillent le fruit; voilà le gouvernement despotique —When the savages of Louisiana want fruit, they cut down the tree by the root to obtain it.
— 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.

Lord Fellamar very heartily thanked her ladyship for the part which she was pleased to take in the affair, upon the success of which his whole future happiness entirely depended.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Where pages are lost from V a group of inferior MSS.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

ꝓ il ſuo habito deſſerle ſempre fidelle facto queſto lo cap o donno aL re vna cathedra de veluta roſſo dicendoli ounque andaſſe ſemꝓ La faceſſe portare dinanzi avn ſuo piu porpinque et moſtroli Como La ſi doueua portare reſpoſe Lo farebe volentierj
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Now, in the first place, they have as many names as men have languages; for Vulcan is not called Vulcan in Italy, Africa, or Spain, as you are called Velleius in all countries.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

From the simplest reaction of the infant disturbed in his play or his meal, a straight line of development leads to the fighting spirit of man, whose pugnaciousness and whose longing for vengeance force his will on his enemies.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Furius did not so triumph over the Gauls, Papyrius of the Samnites, Scipio of Numantia, as she did by her temperance; pulla semper veste , &c., they should insult and domineer over lust, folly, vainglory, all such inordinate, furious and unruly passions.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Vous voulez le reprendre, Vos ordres, sans détour, pouvaient se faire entendre; D’un œil aussi content, d’un cœur aussi soumis, Que j’acceptais l’époux que vous m’aviez promis, Je saurai, s’il le faut, victime obéissante Tendre au fer de Calchas une tête innocente; Et respectant le coup par vous-même ordonné, Vous rendre tout le sang que vous m’avez donné.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Qui veut la fin, veut les moyens —Who wills the end, wills the means.
— 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.

While, if conjecture were once as liberally permitted to believers as it is generously afforded to scepticks, I know not whether a hint concerning Sphinx's original might not be deduced from old Israel's last blessing to his sons; The lion of Judah , with the head of a virgin , in whose offspring that lion was one day to sink and be lost, except his hinder parts; might naturally enough grow into a favourite emblem among the inhabitants of a nation Page 407 who owed their existence to one of the family; and who would be still more inclined to commemorate the mystical blessing, if they observed the fructifying inundation to happen regularly, as Mr. Savary says, when the Sun left Leo for Virgo.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

This the woman said in a low, fearsome voice.
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

No. 2. "5 o'clock, P. M. " Dear Sir :— The U. S. ship Preble is in at Portsmouth; latest from Valparaiso.
— from If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact by Edward Everett Hale

Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 12 This eBook was produced by David Widger THE TALES AND NOVELS OF J. DE LA FONTAINE Volume 12.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Volume 12 by Jean de La Fontaine

Passively at last, from very weariness of thought, her mind was but going backward and forward over its own traces, heedlessly obliterating them, when suddenly a new and horrid consciousness emerged from the trodden slime—that she was glad that at least Sophy had the money!
— from Far Above Rubies by George MacDonald

[516] 28 This evening we saw many swan passing to the north as if on a long flight; vegetation is not by several days as forward here as at fort Clatsop when we left that place; the river rising fast; the water is turbid; the tide only swells the water a little, it does not stop the current; it is now within two feet of its greatest height.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

The carefully rehearsed calm of my leather face vanished and I made the discouraging discovery that my features were out of control.
— from A Virginia Scout by Hugh Pendexter

The History of the ancient Drama, both Greek and Roman , as it does not come within my present Design, I leave to be learnt from Vossius , and others.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

And so the Lyons Federation vanishes too, swallowed of darkness;—and yet not wholly, for our brave fair Roland was there; also she, though in the deepest privacy, writes her Narrative of it in Champagneux's Courier de Lyons; a piece which 'circulates to the extent of sixty thousand;' which one would like now to read.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle