Moreover, in love, ‘tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us: “Come segue la lepre il cacciatore Al freddo, al caldo, alla montagna, al lito; Ne piu l’estima poi the presa vede; E sol dietro a chi fugge affretta il piede” [“As the hunter pursues the hare, in cold and heat, to the mountain, to the shore, nor cares for it farther when he sees it taken, and only delights in chasing that which flees from him.”—Aristo, x. 7.] so soon as it enters unto the terms of friendship, that is to say, into a concurrence of desires, it vanishes and is gone, fruition destroys it, as having only a fleshly end, and such a one as is subject to satiety.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Nor is it so strange, as perhaps before consideration it may appear, that the property of labour should be able to over-balance the community of land: for it is labour indeed that puts the difference of value on every thing; and let any one consider what the difference is between an acre of land planted with tobacco or sugar, sown with wheat or barley, and an acre of the same land lying in common, without any husbandry upon it, and he will find, that the improvement of labour makes the far greater part of the value.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Such a long coat, such short little legs, it can't walk more than a step or two: it runs a little, gets entangled in its own coat, and tumbles over.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rubenius told him, that the point was still litigating amongst the learned:——That Egnatius, Sigonius, Bossius Ticinensis, Bayfius Budæus, Salmasius, Lipsius, Lazius, Isaac Casaubon, and Joseph Scaliger, all differed from each other,—and he from them: That some took it to be the button,—some the coat itself,—others only the colour of it;—That the great Bayfuis in his Wardrobe of the Ancients, chap.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Rubenius told him, that the point was still litigating amongst the learned:—That Egnatius, Sigonius, Bossius Ticinensis, Bayfius Budaeus, Salmasius, Lipsius, Lazius, Isaac Casaubon, and Joseph Scaliger, all differed from each other,—and he from them: That some took it to be the button,—some the coat itself,—others only the colour of it;—That the great Bayfuis in his Wardrobe of the Ancients, chap.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

99 See Ludolf, lib. iii. cap.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

ann. 1236, c. 1.—Établissements de S. Louis, Liv. i. cap.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

It had been specified in the treaty, that the Buccaneers should not set fire to the town; 'therefore,' says Lussan, 'lest in consequence of this accident, the Spaniards should refuse to pay the ransom, we pretended to believe it was their doing.'
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

Waggons sound lin lin in Chinese, koungour koungour in Mandshu.
— from Lectures on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

The classical navigator had been told that he must pass a narrow and dangerous strait: "Dextrum Scylla latus, laevum implacata Charybdis, Obsidet."
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

We cleared the snow off the mackintosh, and putting it over us again, slept like logs in comparative warmth.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

No, no, don't let us ever mention it again; because, don't you see, La Louve, it comes over one like—I should soon work myself up to madness if I allowed my thoughts to dwell on it."
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

They love the same things—gardens scenery, the simple life, lofty ideals, cathedrals and Walt Whitman."
— from The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit