'My son,' said he, 'we're surely fools To wait for other people's tools; As if one might, for love or pelf, Have friends more faithful than himself!
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The most fundamental laws of preservation and growth, demand precisely the reverse, namely:—that each should discover his own virtue, his own Categorical Imperative.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I shall plough my fields like other people, sow seed.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Such great riches were an insult to his misfortunes; that man had come there to make an exhibition of his immense wealth on the very day that he, Tales, for lack of money, for lack of protectors, had to abandon the house raised by his own hands.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

" Clare looked at her keenly, then, gathering her meaning, flagged like one plague-stricken, and his glance sank; it fell on her hands, which, once rosy, were now white and more delicate.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

So, then, if dignities cannot win men reverence, if they are actually sullied by the contamination of the wicked, if they lose their splendour through time's changes, if they come into contempt merely for lack of public estimation, what precious beauty have they in themselves, much less to give to others?' SONG IV.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

May it turn out well, says Carneades, speaking shamelessly, but still 440 more sensibly than my friend Lucius or Patro: for, as they refer everything to themselves, do they think that anything is ever done for the sake of another?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

My heart began to beat—I looked at Mademoiselle Galley—“Yes, yes,” added she, laughing at my fearful look; “our prisoner of war; come, get up behind her, we shall give a good account of you.”—“But, mademoiselle,” continued I, “I have not the honor to be acquainted with your mother; what will she say on my arrival?”—“Her mother,” replied Mademoiselle de G—— “is not at Toune, we are alone, we shall return at night, and you shall come back with us.”
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Chapter Footnotes: [1] gente de a caballo, men ( farm laborers, or peones ) on horseback .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey[obs3], whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest[obs3], geste[obs3], extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopia, Atlantis[obs3], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kingdom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c. (novel) 594; Arabian nights[obs3]; le pot au lait[Fr]; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope) 858[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Army of the Revolution, at Boston, adopted by Congress, i. 134; its organization and character, 136-143; sectional jealousies in, at New York, 162; goes to pieces after defeat, 167, 175, 176; condition in winter of 1777, 186; difficulties between officers, 189; with foreign officers, 190-192; improvement as shown by condition after Brandywine and Germantown, 200, 201; hard winter at Valley Forge, 228; maintained alive only by Washington, 227, 228, 232; improved morale at Monmouth, 239; mutinies for lack of pay, 258; suffers during 1779, 270; bad condition in 1780, 279; again mutinies for pay, 291, 292, 295; conduct of troops, 292, 293; jealousy of people towards, 332; badly treated by States and by Congress, 333; grows mutinous, 334; adopts Newburg addresses, 335, 336; ready for a military dictatorship, 338, 340; farewell of Washington to, 345.
— from George Washington, Volume II by Henry Cabot Lodge

Notwithstanding the horror felt toward amalgamation, from time to time in unexpected Southern quarters reappears the suggestion that it is impossible for the two races to live alongside each other separate, and that the logical and unavoidable outcome is fusion; that the relentless force of juxtaposition is too much for law or prejudice or race instinct.
— from The Southern South by Albert Bushnell Hart

The most famous lists of published books are: The American Catalogue (1876 sqq. ); the English Catalogue (1835 sqq. ); C. G. Kayser, Bücher-Lexikon (1750 sqq. ); Wilhelm Heinsius, Bücher-Lexikon (1700-1892); Otto Lorenz, _Catalogue général de la librarie française (1840 sqq .); and, for general comment, American Library Association, Index to General Literature (1893 sqq. ).
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

I went loping on as before, with my heart in my mouth, feeling like one pursued in a nightmare.
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

To fail at the last moment for lack of perseverance would have been utterly uncharacteristic of him.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

We must not take the conclusions we arrive at and expect to force the world to accept without protest our rules for conduct, our methods for living, our practices for morals, or our beliefs, for their guide.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter

For it is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang , that marry for love, or put the husband before the banker.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

The act approved March 3, 1885, designed to compensate officers and enlisted men for loss of private property while in the service of the United States, is so indefinite in its terms and apparently admits so many claims the adjustment of which could not have been contemplated that if it is to remain upon the statute book it needs amendment.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland