Take your slippers; and may you never have a day's luck with them!
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

"So as marvel you not at the thin population of America, nor at the rudeness and ignorance of the people; for you must account your inhabitants of America as a young people; younger a thousand years, at the least, than the rest of the world: for that there was so much time between the universal flood and their particular inundation.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Were I with her, the night would post too soon; But now are minutes added to the hours; To spite me now, each minute seems a moon; Yet not for me, shine sun to succour flowers!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To whom do you expose your father’s life, Your son’s, and mine, your now forgotten wife!’
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

With stones and mud you now build a fireplace inside the shanty, with the big chimney carried up outside, always taking care that there are several inches of mud or stone between the fire and any of the logs.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Treasure your strength, and may you never learn by experience the profound ENNUI and irritation of the shelved artist.
— from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

And there shall be ties which no distance can sever, Thou land of our fathers, the dauntless and free; Tho' the charms of each change smile around me, yet never Shall the sigh be inconstant that's hallow'd to thee.
— from The Newcastle Song Book; or, Tyne-Side Songster Being a Collection of Comic and Satirical Songs, Descriptive of Eccentric Characters, and the Manners and Customs of a Portion of the Labouring Population of Newcastle and the Neighbourhood by Various

And when you are twenty years old, what strict account may you not require of my life and your own?”
— from La Grenadiere by Honoré de Balzac

Come to think of it, though, I never saw any man yet, no matter how old or ugly or outrageous he might be, who didn't really believe he stood a perfectly good chance to win the affections of the handsomest young woman alive!
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

We went to bed together, and soon after, believing that I was asleep, though I was not, she got up with so little precaution, that she said, so loud as I could hear distinctly, Sleep, and may you never awake again.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

And I'll be proud to have you for a son; and may you never repent your bargain."
— from The Virgin in Judgment by Eden Phillpotts

To us he is still a man, young, noble, and unhappy.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron