In settling your quarrels with kings for your tools, You prove yourselves losers and eminent fools.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Having regard to all these considerations, I do not put the money value of the actual physical loss of Belgian property by destruction and loot above $750,000,000 as a maximum , and while I hesitate to put yet lower an estimate which differs so widely from those generally current, I shall be surprised if it proves possible to substantiate claims even to this amount.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Ruth, darling, you don't know how pretty you look; and even though you have deserted me, and won't join my darling, beloved society, yet I shall always love you."
— from The Rebel of the School by L. T. Meade

"Your kind heart leads you to see no fault in any man who praises you loudly and exalts you to the skies, and to bestow all your love and confidence on him; when you were a child, on the contrary, your modesty was so excessive that you wept when you were openly praised."
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

Prithee be serious, and reform that Thought: Think of my past Service, and judge by that my future; weigh all the respect I have paid you long, and ever lov’d you beyond my self.
— from The City Bride (1696) Or, The Merry Cuckold by Joseph Harris

With a whispered word to Devonham, he disappeared through the door into the passage: "You look after 'em; I must find my girl."
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

When you pull up the plunger, you leave an empty space; you shove the air out of the pump or syringe ahead of the plunger.
— from Common Science by Carleton Washburne

Our Lord preserve your lordship, and enrich you with the manifold increase of His grace.
— from Santa Teresa: An Appreciation With Some of the Best Passages of the Saint's Writings by Alexander Whyte

'Drive like a devil,' cried Jerry, 'and I will pay you like an emperor!' 'Much the same sort of persons, now-a-days,' said the coachman, and away we flew.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

To her I very much respect, Mrs. Margaret Clark. 'Lovely, and oh that I could write loving Mrs. Margaret Clark, I pray you let Affection excuse Presumption.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

"You passed your last annual examinations in June."
— from Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis; Or, Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock