Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen —Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind.
— 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.

How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises!
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Gasbut ba sab nang tawhána uy, ingun muuban, unyà dì diay tu, Darn that man.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ayaw sagahira (isagahid) ang ímung sapátus arun dì magubà ug dalì, Don’t drag your feet when you walk or your shoes will wear out right away.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[24] TO KEEP MULBERRIES MORA UT DIU DURENT MULBERRIES, IN ORDER TO KEEP THEM, MUST BE LAID INTO THEIR OWN JUICE MIXED WITH NEW WINE [boiled down to one half] IN A GLASS VESSEL AND MUST BE WATCHED
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

To see a well-cut herbal, herbs, trees, flowers, plants, all vegetables expressed in their proper colours to the life, as that of Matthiolus upon Dioscorides, Delacampius, Lobel, Bauhinus, and that last voluminous and mighty herbal of Beslar of Nuremberg, wherein almost every plant is to his own bigness.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Most unmarried Dukes do.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

"Second the motion," uttered Dan Dalzell, hastily.
— from The High School Left End; or, Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

We make few efforts in life save to satisfy our most urgent demands, desires, and ambitions.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

It appears that he established at Aurillac a manufactory of lace where they made, upon "des dessins flamands modifiés," a special article, then named "point Colbert," and subsequently "point d'Aurillac."
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

“I have finished what I had to say, Mrs. Unthank,” Dominey declared.
— from The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

There are many unpublished documents, diaries of officers and enlisted men, of pay and quarter-masters, and journals in the archives and offices of Hesse, public and private.
— from A Defence of the Hessians by J. G. (Joseph George) Rosengarten