Trau keinem Freunde sonder Mängel, / Und lieb' ein Mädchen, keinen Engel —Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. Lessing.
— 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.

Nothing could make us less envious than the moral cow and the plump happiness of a clean conscience.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

C. Qui tecum cupis esse meos ubicumque libellos Et comites longae quaeris
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I indeed labour in the sweat of my face, I am tormented with sorrow of heart, I am burdened with sins, I am disquieted with temptations, I am entangled and oppressed with many passions, and there is none to help me, there is none to deliver and ease me, but Thou, O Lord God, my Saviour, to whom I commit myself and all things that are mine, that Thou mayest preserve me and lead me unto life eternal.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

A word is said to be comic when it makes us laugh at the person who utters it, and witty when it makes us laugh either at a third party or at ourselves.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

The King saw it from afar, but would not give his daughter to Hans yet, and said he must first take a hundred hares out to pasture from early morning until late evening, and if one of them got away, he should not have his daughter.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

May Roberts could have given me electro-shock, kept me under long enough for the season to change, or taken me South and left me on a street in daylight.
— from The Old Die Rich by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

Previous to this, or at least previous to 1816, when the approaching great monetary change of that year was intimated to the Bank, and the contraction of the currency really began, distress at home was comparatively unknown, and the most unbounded loyalty existed in our colonial settlements in every part of the world.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

During the days that followed, Appleton and Sheridan, accompanied by Blood River Jack, hunted from early morning until late evening, when they would return, trail-weary and happy, to spend hours over the cleaning and oiling of guns and the overhauling of gear.
— from The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

The sight of all these domestic animals made us long even more than ever for our home at Rockburg, and we determined to hasten thither with all possible speed.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

I mean"—he remembered that the man understood little English—"do we go straight back to the village—and what do we do with this horse?"
— from Afterwards by Kathlyn Rhodes