Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten —The truth adjusts itself not to us, but we must adjust ourselves to it.
— 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.

“Ay, but,” answered Prior Aymer, “every land has its own manners and fashions; and, besides that beating this fellow could procure us no information respecting the road to Cedric's house, it would have been sure to have established a quarrel betwixt you and him had we found our way thither.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

“He’s a bug, an ignoramus, a buffoon, who understands nothing in Russia!” cried Shatov spitefully.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8. non enim unquam contigit, nec post homines natos invenies quenquam, cui omnia ex animi sententia successerint, ita ut nulla in re fortuna sit ei adversata.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For Napoleon it was a panic; 10 Blücher sees nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Thus the foreign representatives had obtained two out of the three conditions, and those the most important, while giving up nothing in return.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The utmost nicety is required in the mode of doing this; but we speak only of the great artists in the profession.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Saarbrück (10), a manufacturing town in Rhenish Prussia, on the French frontier, where the French under Napoleon III. repulsed the Germans, August 2, 1870.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Orders are sent by telegraph to the maritime stations within a region likely to be visited by dangerous winds, and a “cautionary signal”—a square white flag with a square red center by day, or a red-center light by night—is displayed, remains out until notice is received from the central office that the danger has passed.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

Those about her, particularly Eddie and her old mammy, noticed the unwonted care and anxiety in her innocent face, but attributed it wholly to the unfavorable news in regard to Lily's condition, which reached them from time to time.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley

The arguments used on this occasion were very similar to those occasionally used now in relation to the same subject, and they were then as unavailing as they have been subsequently: the preponderating opinion was that the safety of the investments was, and ought to be, the first and greatest consideration.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins

You took away our land, our dignity, and gave us nothing in return but the butt of your muskets.
— from Highland Ballad by Christopher Leadem

The leading young man of this comedy now under notice is represented as "a wild-headed gentleman," and revealed as an abject ruffian of unredeemed and irredeemable rascality.
— from The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

"They're comin' for us now, I reckon!" cried the Shadow, and of that there could be no doubt; the shrieking horde had evidently decided to exterminate the invaders of [Pg 212] their domain without further delay.
— from The Lost Explorers: A Story of the Trackless Desert by Alexander MacDonald

The only letters preserved are addressed to his old correspondent Mr Candler, and to his uncle Mr John Thirlwall, and they give us no information relevant to Cambridge.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark

But thar's some mighty bad uns, 'n' I reck'n Devil Marston's the wust.
— from The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey

Peggy was under no illusions regarding the path of the reformer.
— from Peggy Raymond's Way; Or, Blossom Time at Friendly Terrace by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith