Our motto should be No Surrender ; and far from yielding to the ills of life, let us take fresh courage from misfortune:— Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito .[1]
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

“I ask your pardon, my dear count,” said Albert, “for following you here, and I must first tell you that it was not the fault of your servants that I did so; I alone am to blame for the indiscretion.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

On hearing these words, OEnothea sat down between us and, after shaking her head for a while, “I’m the only one that knows how to cure that disease,” said she, “and for fear you think I’m talking to hear myself talk, I’ll just have the young fellow sleep with me for a night, and if I don’t make it as hard as horn!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Ivan cried, his face working with anger, “why are you always in such a funk for your life?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And if you want, Ezra’ll start a fire for you in the grate, and get you tea or coffee—” “No, no, thank you.
— from Cursed by George Allan England

When he was ten, he was bound apprentice to Saunders Snaps in the Back-row, whose grandson has yet, as you know, the sign of the Wheat Sheaf; and for five years he behaved himself like his betters.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

Don Grumedan kissed his hand and answered, this is indeed the greatest favour I ever received from you, and more than any services can ever have deserved; but this must not be, and God forbid that a King like you should commit such a fault, for you are King, and Lord, and Judge, and must deal by strangers in this case, even as by your own subjects.
— from Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 3 of 4. by Vasco de Lobeira

By the treaty of 24th of May, 1834, it is provided, that $3,000 shall annually, for fifteen years, be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the education of the Chickasaws.
— from History of the Indians, of North and South America by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich