Non est regni decus, sed carceris esse custos.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

One often hears it said that Protestantism introduced a new era, radically different from any the world had ever seen before: the era of "private judgment," as they call it.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

A rich woman dies, and no exact, regular disposition of her property is made.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

eux qui nous en renvoient de plus fortes!
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Lo pilloto q̃ ne era reſtato diſſe
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

We had been disgusted with the sort of people we met in the theatres, because they were rough and ready, not bad, but not especially refined——” Don smiled, thinking of such a statement coming from the race which had tomahawked and scalped in pioneer days; but reconsideration made him realize that the pioneers had slain also, and had introduced not only “fire water” but had taken away lands the Indians felt were theirs.
— from The Ghost of Mystery Airport by Van Powell

No wiser we than men of heretofore To find thy sacred fountains guarded fast; Enough, thy flood makes green our human shore, As Nilus Egypt, rolling down his vast His fertile flood, that murmurs evermore Of gods dethroned, and empires in the past.
— from Ballades and Verses Vain by Andrew Lang

Maybe some old black bonneted sister would slap her hands and shout a little on the side, but nobody ever really did the things he told them to do.
— from A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris

TEMPORARY NORTH EASTERN REPORTER DIGEST, including cases reported in volumes 171 to 175 North eastern reporter.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

[Transcriber's Note: Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
— from The Rat Race by Jay Franklin

Nothing ever really disturbed Chirpy 41 Cricket after he settled in the farmyard.
— from The Tale of Chirpy Cricket by Arthur Scott Bailey

There have been recently two notable exhibitions, respectively devoted to the works of the sculptor-painter, Max Klinger, and the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
— from Franz Liszt by James Huneker

He thought them stupid, boorish, dense, devoid of the senses of common humanity, not to see what he saw, not to feel as he felt,—that this vague flame had a meaning and a message not yet interpreted, perhaps not even remotely divined.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

The Cosmic Computer Transcriber's Note Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
— from The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper