Many of his remarks are so full of simplicity and truth, that they have stood the test of time, and stand out still as clear and true as when they were first written, some eighteen hundred years ago.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

Then they chatted for a moment of Hastings' prospects, and Clifford politely offered to stand his sponsor at the studio.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

They eagerly disputed the friendship, or rather the gifts, of the emperor; and the distinctions which nature had fixed between the faithful dog and the rapacious wolf was applied by an ambassador who received only verbal instructions from the mouth of his illiterate prince.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, off you run, and see what you can make of him.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

However I will add this merely, that Alexander in storming the rock lost many of his Macedonians, whereas our ruler and general lost not a single chiliarch or a captain, nay not even a legionary from the muster-roll, but achieved an unsullied and “tearless” 339 victory.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Please your ladyship To visit the next room, I'll presently Acquaint the Queen of your most noble offer Who but to-day hammer'd of this design, But durst not tempt a minister of honour, Lest she should be denied.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"You're the prison chaplain," said K., and went closer to the priest, it was not so important for him to go straight back to the bank as he had made out, he could very well stay where he was.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Marcus, on the other hand, revered the character of his benefactor, loved him as a parent, obeyed him as his sovereign, 43 and, after he was no more, regulated his own administration by the example and maxims of his predecessor.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Many of his sallies I lost; those I caught were excellent.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

And then I have often said to myself as I wept about you for rage and woe because I have seen you more friendly with others than with me—I have often said to myself that it is unworthy of a man to allow himself to be subjected by love, unworthy to make a woman the mistress of his thoughts, of his desires; that a man should strive for higher aims, aspire to nobler things."
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

However, we went to Hutchings, and he was much pleased, and said it was ripping of us all, and promised, the morning before he went, to try and get us a half-holiday as a memory of him.
— from The Human Boy and the War by Eden Phillpotts

Yet never for a moment did he swerve in his resolve to save his unfortunate cousin if the thing were to be done, although there were times when he marvelled over himself as a strange and unaccountable paradox.
— from 'Tween Snow and Fire: A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford

The politicians told him that he lived in the best state in the Union; told him that the other politicians had some hare-brained plan to increase his taxes, told him as a consolation for his ignorance how many of his kinsmen had been killed in the war, told him to distrust any one who wished to change anything.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

He put up a hut in the middle of his plantation— Di-buat-nia dangau di tengah ladang.
— from A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

Upon a height near the shore was grouped a mass of houses of grey stone, with low cupola roofs.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams