Les honneurs coutent à qui veut les posséder —Honours are dearly bought by whoever wishes to possess them.
— 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.

When we had supped I asked for her name and address, and I was astonished to find that she was one of the girls whom Lord Pembroke had assessed at six guineas.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Lucius Crassus and Lucius Philippus had a large fund of wit; Gaius Caesar, Lucius's son, had a still richer fund and employed it with more studied purpose.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And Laurie put his arm about her with a brotherly gesture which was very comforting.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

These are very difficult to treat, and almost every landscape painter has a different formula.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

But that perversity, which all children have more or less of, and of which little Pearl had a tenfold portion, now, at the most inopportune moment, took thorough possession of her, and closed her lips, or impelled her to speak words amiss.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But though they should read, it would be to small purpose, clames licet et mare coelo Confundas ; thunder, lighten, preach hell and damnation, tell them 'tis a sin, they will not believe it; denounce and terrify, they have [2043] cauterised consciences, they do not attend, as the enchanted adder, they stop their ears.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sir, those cold ways, That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous Where the disease is violent.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

That is to say: our high God is sovereign Wisdom of all: in this low place He arrayed and dight Him full ready in our poor flesh, Himself to do the service and the office of Motherhood in all things.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Me consta que su 208 hermana de usted cree a pie juntillas que yo le voy a tomar por asalto la casa, y no es dudoso que detrás de la puerta habrá alguna barricada.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

But their choice is influenced by other considerations; chief of these being the fact that near the centre of the curve they find a spot altogether suited to their purpose—a little platform, high and dry, itself clear of trees, but surrounded and sheltered by them.
— from The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid

These people must be treated like pigs.' H2 anchor MONDAY, OCTOBER 25.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

The Unsan plant is largely self-contained, having crushers, a foundry, machine shops, a fleet, a railway and lumbering plant, hospital and barracks.
— from China Revolutionized by John Stuart Thomson

It was a bright sunny morning, but very cold, and snow lay packed hard and firm in the streets of New York, which, narrow as they were, afforded little opportunity for the sun's rays to penetrate with sufficient strength to warm the shivering pedestrians who were hurrying down Maiden Lane in the direction of the Vly Market.
— from An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

In his many journeyings from place to place in search of information, Henty was constantly brought face to face with the more or less petty horrors and often mischievous ruin caused by civil war—desolated villages, ruined homestead and mansion, and the stagnation of the country’s social life by the passing through it of fire and sword.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

I think he must have appeared in a more interesting light that usual at this meal, for as we went out from the dining room Mary Leighton put her arm through mine and whispered "Poor fellow!
— from Richard Vandermarck: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

if Maids upon this Quicksand run, They're lost past hope, and are for e'er undone, The Tenth Comfort.
— from The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women by Various

Differentiation, once more, works not merely upward, but also downward; the public leader pushes himself ahead, and at the same time the great masses are looking for some one whom they may follow.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg