Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for 25 cheesecakes.
— 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.

Let us now look from the interior to the outside.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Let us no longer flatter ourselves with these fine words; we ought rather, peradventure, to call that natural which is general, common, and universal.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Indicet ut nomen littera facta meum, Atque inter geminas pingantur cornua frontes: Sic etenim comptum mittere oportet opus.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

A right observance of æsthetic demands does not obstruct utility nor logic; for utility and logic are themselves beautiful, while a sensuous beauty that ran counter to reason could never be, in the end, pleasing to an exquisite sense.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

My large experience (as Reader and Visitor, under not less, first and last, than fourteen beloved clerical friends) informed me that this was another case for preparation by books.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Let people then reproach us no longer for want of clearness, since we make profession of it.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Cabinet appointed by the president in consultation with the prime minister elections: president elected by popular vote for a six-year term; election last held 9 November 1994 (next to be held NA November 2000) election results: Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA elected president; percent of vote - Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA (People's Alliance) 62%, Srima DISSANAYAKE (United National Party) 37%, other 1% Legislative branch: unicameral Parliament (225 seats; members elected by popular vote on the basis of a modified proportional representation system to serve six-year terms) elections: last held 16 August 1994 (next to be held by August 2000) election results: percent of vote by party-PA 49.0%, UNP 44.0%, SLMC 1.8%, TULF 1.7%, SLPF 1.1%, EPDP 0.3%, UPF 0.3%, PLOTE 0.1%, other 1.7%; seats by party-PA 105, UNP 94, EPDP 9, SLMC 7, TULF 5, PLOTE 3, SLPF 1, UPF 1 Judicial branch: Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the Judicial Service Commission; Court of Appeals Political parties and leaders: All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), C. G. Kumar PONNAMBALAM; Ceylon Workers Congress (CLDC), S. THONDAMAN; Communist Party, K. P. SILVA; Communist Party/Beijing (CP/B), N. SHANMUGATHASAN; Democratic People's Liberation Front (DPLF), leader NA; Democratic United National (Lalith) Front (DUNLF), Srimani ATHULATHMUDALI; Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), Douglas DEVANANDA; Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRL), Suresh PREMACHANDRAN; Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students (EROS), Shankar RAJI; Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Somawansa AMERASINGHE; Lanka Socialist Party/Trotskyite (LSSP, or Lanka Sama Samaja Party), Batty WEERAKOON; Liberal Party (LP), Rajira WIJESINGHE; New Socialist Party (NSSP, or Nava Sama Samaja Party), Vasudeva NANAYAKKARA; People's Alliance (PA), Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA; People's Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Uma MAHESWARAN; People's United Front (MEP, or Mahajana Eksath Peramuna), Dinesh GUNAWARDENE; Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), Chandrika Bandaranaike KUMARATUNGA; Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), M. H. M. ASHRAFF; Sri Lanka People's Party (SLMP, or Sri Lanka Mahajana Party), Y. P. DE SILVA; Sri Lanka Progressive Front (SLPF), Ariya BULEGODA; Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), M. K. SIVAJILINGHAM; Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), M. SIVASITHAMBARAM; United National Party (UNP), Ranil WICHREMESINGHE; Upcountry People's Front (UPF), Periyasamy CHANDRASEKARAN; Desha Vimukthi Janatha Party (DVJP),
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The American recruit is handed over to a subaltern officer, who is usually not long from West Point, and is fresh with the athletic enthusiasm and methods of the Academy.
— from Blue Shirt and Khaki: A Comparison by James F. J. (Francis Jewell) Archibald

Let us now look for a moment at the apparent effect of Joshua's soul-stirring appeal to the congregation.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Nature worship usurped that of God, 600-m-601-m. Nature's Forces little known; man controlled and governed by them, 733-l. Nature's great book interpreted in the doctrines of Masonry, 625-m. Nature's immutable Law, the Eternal Will of the Justice which is God, 847-l. Nature's magnificences are an algebra of graces and splendors, 845-u. Nature's problems unanswered; the problems unsolved, 647-l. Nature's regularity suggested by common appearances very early, 699-m. Nature's single and absolute law, the equipoise of contrary forces, 848-u. Nature's Soul released at the end for a brighter existence, 614-u. Naya philosophers declare the individual Soul and God are distinct, 852-u. Necessity and Chance giving way to Law permits the moral Freedom of Man, 695-m. Necessity and Fatality a consequence of Stability and Permanence, 768-u. Necessity and Liberty possible for Infinite Power and Wisdom, 848-m. Necessity and Liberty seemingly antagonistic, 848-m. Necessity and Liberty, the essence of Deity, counterbalanced, produce equilibrium, 778-l. Necessity and Liberty the two columns of the Universe, 848-m. Necessity can not be unjust, or the Great lawgiver would be unjust, 831-l. Necessity: Deity contains the incorruptible and unwearying force of, 658-m. Necessity environs the laws that govern the Universe, 831-l. Necessity in its true meaning is not arbitrary Power, 696-m. Necessity in its true meaning is Strength and Force in the service of Intelligence, 696-m. Necessity is Law perceived, but not understood, 691-m. Necessity neglected in striving for the right is the folly of a dreamer, 835-u. Necessity of man, his own necessity, made often a plea for injustice, 832-u. Necessity of the physicists more oppressive than fables of tradition, 691-m. Necessity, or the omnipotent Will of God, which nothing can disobey, 818-m. Necessity rules in all the affairs of men, requiring the sacrifice of life, 833-l. Necessity, the Director of the atoms, external to themselves, 676-m. Negative notion of God the only way to apprehend him, 651-m. Nephesch, from the world Asiah, one letter, He, of the Tetragrammaton, 757-u. Nephesch, Psyche, the lowest spiritual part of man, Soul, 757-u. Nero, reference to the reign of, 47-l. Neschamah, from the world Briah, the other letter He, 757-u. Nescamah, Leneschamah, from the world Atsiluth, the Yod of the Tetragrammaton, 757-u. Neschamah, the highest spiritual part, anima superior, 757-u.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

“Of a verity thy lot, O beloved, hath been an unhappy one, but let us now look forward to the dawn of a joyous day, to a noonday of prosperity, and to a sunset of peace.
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux

All the time Roy was working with his instruments, trying to pick up news, listening for voices in the air.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

His head and forehead were badly cut, so that his face was bathed in blood and dirt, through which his eyes glared upward no less fiercely than those of his adversary.
— from The Secret Trails by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

If it be objected that the satirist is bound perforce to show the seamy side of human nature, the obligation ought to be equally respected on both sides of the Atlantic; and the fact is that Mr. Guthrie reports conversations which are very clever and very amusing, but which give us no liking for his fellow-countrymen; whereas Mr. Bunner's men and women we are ready and glad to take by the hand, even if we do not take them all to our hearts.
— from Americanisms and Briticisms; with other essays on other isms by Brander Matthews

"That being the case," quoth he of the wood, "we should leave off seeking adventures, and, since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes."
— from Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The sill of the little unglazed niche looking from the room at the end of the dormitory into it has been part of an incised slab.
— from An Account of Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, and All the Recent Discoveries by Anonymous