“If a person suffer from disease, either local or general, let the following remedy be tried.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Gods let the four remaining be, And roam through space, obeying thee.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

We had at least a hundred tongue-skirmishes between our people and the people of Mizdah—between our chaouch and the other chaouch—between our chaouch and the sheikh of the country—between Yusuf and the Fezzanee—between every individual black and every other individual black—Between our chaouch particularly and all the people of Mizdah:—in short, there were as many rows as it were possible for a logician to find relations betwixt man and man.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson

The best in life and literature is seen to be such only by those who have made themselves worthy of the heavenly vision; and once we have learned to love the few real books of the world, or rather what in these few is eternally true and beautiful, we breathe the atmosphere of the intellectual life.
— from Education and the Higher Life by John Lancaster Spalding

Tall men with long tattooed faces ran by like a stream, and were deaf to his call, but he had about twenty men who stood firm.
— from Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Frederick Edward Maning

Further to the eastward flamingoes had always been most numerous, and once or twice we observed signs, early in May, that looked like the first rude beginnings of architecture.
— from Wild Spain (España agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Abel Chapman

Let the world pass away; let the firm rocks be shattered; let the sea swallow all and leave but a desert of water about us, I am content, Masa, to embark with you in a little boat, you and I alone, to ride over the waves and listen to the melodies which the naiads sing to us from the deep, and to what the voice of the wind proclaims.
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Under the law, the Federal Reserve banks are supposed to hold a gold reserve of 40% to secure our currency.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

The black, which would not be confined, A more inferior station seeks, Leaving the fiery red behind, And mingles in her muddy cheeks.
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

She loved the French race; but all the practical Teutonic sagacity in her wanted to take care of it in its difficulties, and was rather angry with it for being so unfitted to take care of itself.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett