This is made clearer by the fact that the legislator is not to exercise legislative power; he is merely to submit his suggestions for popular approval.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I wish I were you, Power,” said Daubeny; “you are so clever, you can learn the lessons in no time; everyone likes you, and you get no end of credit, while I’m a mere butt, and when I’ve worked hard it’s a case of Kathedeitai honos , as the lesson-book says.”
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Lycurgus is said to have divided the land into nine thousand equal lots for the families of the Spartiatæ, and thirty thousand for the Periceci.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

The saved life is not the empty life, but the full life.
— from Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody