I would neither dispute with a porter, a miserable unknown, nor make crowds open in adoration as I pass.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But rise;—let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe; Since this day's death denounced, if aught I see, Will prove no sudden, but a slow-paced evil; A long day's dying, to augment our pain; And to our seed (O hapless seed!) derived.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

9. Hominēs erant tam audācēs ut nūllō modō continērī possent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Thus, if the second player places a cigar at A, I put one at AA; he places one at B, I put one at BB; he places one at C, I put one at CC; he places one at D, I put one at DD; he places one at E, I put one at EE; and so on until no more cigars can be placed without touching.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Idris is a gentle, pretty, sweet little girl; it is impossible not to have an affection for her, and I have a very sincere one; only do not speak of love —love, the tyrant and the tyrant-queller; love, until now my conqueror, now my slave; the hungry fire, the untameable beast, the fanged snake—no—no—I will have nothing to do with that love.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Hominês erant tam audâcês ut nûllô modô continêrî possent.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[843] Septemzodium celebrem locum, ubi Nymphæum Marcus condidit Imperator.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

But go it must, and when we have all brought our bodies under, no more children will be born.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

He sets up no moral code.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

[182] Let us not merely come in for the rewards of life's conflicts in which the few battle for the rights of the many.
— from Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative by George Wharton James

By its own merits the sole appeals; upon no meretricious charm does it base its claim for notice.
— from The Feasts of Autolycus: The Diary of a Greedy Woman by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Here there is no body of Ulema, no Mufti clothed with an authority independent of the sovereign, no divan, colleges, or ministerial departments.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Words that are marked "obsolete" in the Dictionary may not be used, neither may compound words.
— from Harper's Round Table, October 15, 1895 by Various

The crater-Gnomes seemed to communicate by making strange clucking sounds with their tongues, sounds which were unmusical and discordant, and which, as the Gnomes who stood back from them, because already the two were covered until no more could cling to Jaska or Sarka, joined in the speech—mounted in the cavern to a vast crescendo of sound.
— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 by Various

Now this whole course of the world is interwoven with such new things, in events which manifest to us, now more clearly, now more dimly, the striving of the course of the world towards an end, because the latter is really striving towards an end.
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

The bar room had undergone no material change, so far as its furniture and arrangements were concerned; but a very great change was apparent in the condition of these.
— from Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur