Nature, being inconstant and taking pleasure in continually creating and making lives and forms, because she knows that her earthly materials are thereby augmented, is more willing and swift to create than time is to destroy; and so she has ordained that many animals shall feed on each other.
— from Thoughts on Art and Life by da Vinci Leonardo

As the patrols return, organize new squads immediately and constantly endeavor to have every man attached to a squad.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

He endeavoured to explain to them, how ever, that, if they had to work as hard as the Irishmen did, and then had their hard earnings mostly all taken away from them, they would require as strong a military force to take care of them as the Irish did.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin