There is no kind of work that a man can do which requires a better supply of food to prevent physical exhaustion, than the field-work of a slave.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi —To the vulgar herd with your trappings; for me, I know you both inside and out.
— 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.

Pg 234 Greek text Epi de ge tês enantias tês ekkritikês anoignytai men to stoma, proerchetai d' ho pythmên || 151 hapas hoson hoion t' engytatô tou stomatos apôthoumenos exô to embryon, hama d' autô kai ta synechê merê ta hoion pleura tou pantos organou synepilambanomena tou ergou thlibei te kai proôthei pan exô to embryon.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

(a.) Of present action: quod sī Rōmae Cn. Pompēius prīvātus esset, tamen ad tantum bellum is erat mittendus , IP. 50, now if Pompey were at Rome, in private station, still he would be the man to send to this important war .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

What is there to decide whether a particular pleasure is worth purchasing at the cost of a particular pain, except the feelings and judgment of the experienced?
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

For this reason, at the present day, whenever there is a sale of any public property, especially that which is taken in war, proclamation is always made, "Porsena's goods for sale," so that the Romans have never forgotten the kindness which they received from him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Hêmeis d' epeidê, kaitoi pheugontes antilegein tois en autais tais archais euthys esphalmenois, homôs ênankasthêmen hyp' autês tôn pragmatôn tês akolouthias eipein tina kai dialechthênai pros autous, eti kai touto prosthêsomen tois eirêmenois, hôs ou monon ta kathaironta pharmaka pephyken epispasthai tas oikeias poiotêtas alla kai ta tous skolopas anagonta kai tas tôn belôn akidas eis poly bathos sarkos empeparmenas eniote.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The future passive participle, expressing that which will be or is about to be undergone by the person or thing indicated by the word modified, ends in -ota , as vidota , about to be seen: La punota infano mallaŭte ploretas , the child about to be punished whimpers softly.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

[Pg 35] because, while it exists in relation to all other sciences as a principle—to use the words of the metaphysician just quoted—"given to us by nature,"—as a principle of the mind within ,—it exists in Palæontological science as a principle of nature itself,—as a principle palpably external to the mind .
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

In announcing it at High Mass, the pious pastor expected to see in the evening not more than fifty or sixty persons at most.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

Any semblance of a caricature on the Presidental proboscis exposes the unfortunate possessor (as George Robins would have said) to the persecution of the police.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

Mengs describes a duplicate of this picture, painted on canvass, at his time in the hands of an Englishman at Rome, and though, in his opinion, only the study for the other, in the principal parts, especially the figure of the youth, highly finished: his expression, form and attitude, remind the critic so strongly of the same in the eldest son of the Laocoon, that he is persuaded they are an imitation, though in a style more consonant with Correggio's manner.
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

This will be true of any supra -national government that the United States might get into: the union will not extend American freedom to other nations; it will extend to all nations in the union the most restrictive controls of the most oppressive government which enters the union, and make even those controls worse than they were before the union was formed–because the American principle of federalism has been discarded by the "liberals" who manage our national affairs; and American federalism is the only political principle ever to exist in the history of the world that can make individual human freedom possible in a federation of states.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

Even Jack Rodney comes out of himself, and, conquering his habitual laziness, takes her in hand, and, as being the best dancer present, par excellence , teaches and tutors, and encourages her until Doatie cries "enough," and protests with pathos she will have no more of it, as she is not going to be cut out by Mona at all events in the dancing line.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Somehow she reached out unconsciously in every direction and drew to her all these perspiring, pushing, eating, talking people.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

And yet it happened that I soon became the centre of a set; later, in my regiment, I exercised the same power: plain ensign though I were, the older officers spent their evenings with me, and preferred my quarters to the coffee-house.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Boden next came forth from his retirement and played some excellent games with him. Bird, long out of chess happening to return from a long absence abroad, also met him, but neither English player proved equal to Morphy, and it was regretted that the more experienced Staunton would not, and that Buckle could not test conclusions with him, Lowenthal and Paulsen had both been defeated by Morphy in America, and the young American proved decisively successful in matches against Lowenthal and Anderssen in London [Paris], and Harrwitz in Paris.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird