From your many experiences, whether they have been such as you would have chosen or not, strength, growth, discipline have resulted, and sometimes I think all the adverse winds of life are needed to check our ever-rising vain-glory in our own power and success....
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

One other such fit of merriment, and I must throw off my clerical wig and band." "Not so, good Dr. Byles," answered Sir William Howe; "if mirth were a crime, you had never gained your doctorate in divinity.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

RECEIVES A LETTER FROM HIM Iam Pūblius 1 decem annōs habēbat cum M. Cornēlius Lentulus, pater eius, quī quīnque annōs 2 grave bellum in Asiā gerēbat, non sine glōriā domum 3 revertēbātur.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Dell' albero non si giudica dalla scorza —You can't judge of a tree by its bark.
— 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.

Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

3. c. 41 , is of the same opinion, that it may be lawfully given; and our country gentlewomen find it by their common practice, that there is no such great danger in it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So locking the door after us, we left work to-night, and up to the Deputy Governor (my Lord Mayor, and Sir H. Bennet, with the rest of the company being gone an hour before); and he do undertake to keep the key of the cellars, that none shall go down without his privity.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thus he: the stern Achilles thus replied: "My second father, and my reverend guide: Thy friend, believe me, no such gifts demands, And asks no honours from a mortal's hands; Jove honours me, and favours my designs; His pleasure guides me, and his will confines; And here I stay (if such his high behest)
— from The Iliad by Homer

His serene grey eyes under the square, peaceful forehead looked a trifle weary, and he sighed as his aunt harangued him, but he did not seem greatly disturbed.
— from Children of the Dear Cotswolds by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

"She didn't go nowhere," said George doggedly, "on that day anyhow.
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

No single great deed is comparable for a moment to the multitude of little gentlenesses performed by those who scatter happiness on every side and strew all life with hope and good cheer.
— from The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis

“If this tendency to decay and extinction be inevitable; if this adaptation of European policy to a native state be found unable to arrest the fall of the Borneon government, yet we shall retain a people already habituated to European manners, industrious interior races, and at a future period, if deemed necessary, settlements gradually developed in a rich and fertile country.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James