Further, as there is no one who does not wish to be happy, so there is no one who does not wish to be.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Now there is need of juices, by means of which, old age, being renewed, may return to the bloom of life , and may receive back again its early years; and this ye will give me; for not in vain did the stars just now sparkle; nor yet in vain is the chariot come, drawn by the necks of winged dragons.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

They are puzzled, too, by the seeming impossibility of reconciling the voices heard in contention, with the facts that no one was discovered up stairs but the assassinated Mademoiselle L’Espanaye, and that there were no means of egress without the notice of the party ascending.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

There ought not to be any possibility of that deadlock in politics which would ensue on a quarrel breaking out between a president and an assembly, neither of whom, during an interval which might amount to years, would have any legal means of ridding itself of the other.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

In no other way do they make the acquaintance of their beloved than by saving her from certain death!”
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

We will draw no inferences ourselves, but we will take note of what does not explain itself and apply {244} to experts to explain what we can not.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The idea was, however, claimed by Sir Richard Phillips, who stoutly maintained that it originated in a suggestion made by him to Dr. Tilloch and Mr. Mayne, to cut the anecdotes from the many years' files of the Star newspaper, of which Dr. Tilloch was the editor; and Mr. Byerley assistant editor; and to the latter overhearing the suggestion, Sir Richard contested, might the "Percy Anecdotes" be traced.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Tsar will reward me, I will come back here and then no one will dare—’ Then he was silent and his lips still kept trembling.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Never try to show off your driving, but remember, that there is no one who drives with so much apparent ease and so little display as the professional jockey, who, as he devotes his life to the management of the reins, may well be supposed to be the most thoroughly good “whip.”
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

But, in the hope that no one will desecrate it, as the Rock of Names has been injured, I may mention that there is a stone near Rydal Mere, on the north-eastern slope of Loughrigg, with the initial "M." deeply cut.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

No one will dare to claim any sense for such hurrying and scurrying, or the merit of its being a symptom of social health.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

She did serve him, therefore she could not fail of finding out the word that belonged to the act: no one who does not serve him ever can find out what serving him means.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

It seems to me that in a condition of society in which no one need fear poverty, no one would desire great wealth—at least, no one would take the trouble to strive and to strain for it as men do now.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

No one will deny, I suppose, that there is a difference between the intensely refined forms of the Venus, or the earlier Hypsipyle, or the Daphne, and the coarser nudes in the Louvre picture.
— from Giorgione by Herbert Frederick Cook

The settlers were French officers of the noblesse order, who, during the French Revolution, when the royalist cause became desperate, emigrated to England, thence to Canada, where, by the bounty of the Crown, they were given grants of land in this portion of the Province of Upper Canada.
— from An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam

But no one was deceived by this pretence, and the Court anticipated strange events.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

No one would dare openly to contend that the national policy should be one of 'drift,' although I admit that there are many most excellent persons who by their attitude seem to resent any attempt to steer the ship of State along a definite course as being an impious attempt to usurp the functions of Providence, whose special business they conceive this to be.
— from The War After the War by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

"So I would arrange for a steady series of these ladies, which not only would delight the public but might be profitable to the advertisement revenue of the paper if properly managed; for I should state what plays they were in, and where."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 by Various