It is not real want,—for their existence is by no means precarious; perhaps they have even enough to eat and drink without worrying,—but they are urged on day and night by a terrible impatience at seeing their wealth pile up so slowly, and by an equally terrible longing and love for these heaps of gold.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Also, army commanders should practise the habit of giving the artillery and wagons the road, marching their troops on one side, and instruct their troops to assist wagons at steep hills or bad crossings of streams.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

We have with the help of God conquered all the land of the Dipsodes; I will give thee the Chastelleine, or Lairdship of Salmigondin.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

So she conceived and brought forth fierce offspring; first she bare Orthus the hound of Geryones, and then again she bare a second, a monster not to be overcome and that may not be described, Cerberus who eats raw flesh, the brazen-voiced hound of Hades, fifty-headed, relentless and strong.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

He wrote a letter purporting to have been sent from Molon to Epigenes, and persuaded one of the latter’s servants, by holding out the hope of great rewards, to take it to the house of Epigenes, and mix it with his other papers.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The valor of Attila was always guided by his prudence; and as he foresaw the fatal consequences of a defeat in the heart of Gaul, he repassed the Seine, and expected the enemy in the plains of Châlons, whose smooth and level surface was adapted to the operations of his Scythian cavalry.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"I have got out of the habit of going about and speaking Russian.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Let this, then, suffice as a plain, hasty explanation of the First Table of Moses, pointing out to simple folk what are the highest of good works.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

In the meantime, Metropolitan Balan had come to the capital and informed Dr. Safran by telephone that he would be waiting for him at the house of General Vaitoianu with whom he was staying.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

For this alone, in this thy hold, Thou Goddess with the helm of gold, We laid hands on thy sanctuary, Athene....
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

He must be a savage who denies worship to the hero of Golgotha.”
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

He advised the help of "godlie preachers."
— from A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein

On the very day when he dated his letter to the selectmen of Boston as from the United States, the British minister placed in the hands of Mr. Wolcott, the Secretary of the Treasury, an intercepted letter from Fauchet, the French minister, to his own government.
— from George Washington, Volume II by Henry Cabot Lodge

They cheered him with their ready obedience to his command for idolatry (which was a lie in itself, and a lie in them) against the commandment of God, and the warnings of the prophets, rather than cheer the heart of God with their obedience to his worship instituted by him; nay, and when God offered them to cure them their wound, their iniquity breaks out afresh; they would neither have him as a lord to rule them, nor a physician to cure them (Hosea vii.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Of the incense of praise which may ascend from the hearts of God's people, as they minister the Word, they must take none for themselves.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Leviticus by Samuel H. (Samuel Henry) Kellogg

King Edward dined in the Middle Temple Hall on Grand Night of Trinity term in 1874.
— from His Most Gracious Majesty King Edward VII by Marie Belloc Lowndes