But Jehoshaphat, who was a righteous man, encouraged him, and bade him send to the camp, and know whether any prophet of God was come along with them, that we might by him learn from God what we should do.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Plato treats of this mystery with a raillery manifest enough; for where he writes according to his own method he gives no certain rule.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

His name, it appeared, was M——. He was a rich merchant established in London, and had been commended to her husband by a Knight of Malta.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As to the sod and the honeycomb in the middle, for I never do anything without a reason, Mother Earth is in the centre, round as an egg, and all that is good is found in her, just like it is in a honeycomb.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The latter lady was leaning meditatively, her arm on a side of her chair, like a pensive queen, with a ready, mild, embracing look for the company.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

In the next place, though so few in council, we are legion when the time comes for action; because we are representative men, each of his own section, and each section is capable of an indefinite expansion.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

When a rich man er a famous man gits down in the mouth onct an' loses his nerve, it's all day with him in a minnet, an' a rope or a six-shooter ginerally winds him up.
— from Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman Edwin Miller

how I wish I were a rich man, even tho' I were squeezed camel-fashion at getting thro' that Needles eye that is spoken of in the Written Word .
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

I assert myself to be equal to all others who are worthy of esteem, and therefore I must recognize for myself all the duties which those who are richer, more educated, and more influential impose on themselves; in short, I must behave like a gentleman.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

ACTIVE IMPULSES MUST BE ADDED The most important distinction between Spencer's analysis of love and mine is that he treats it merely as a composite feeling, or a group of emotions, whereas I treat it as a complex state of mind including not only diverse feelings or sentiments—sympathy, admiration of beauty, jealousy, affection—but the active, altruistic impulses of gallantry and self-sacrifice, which are really more essential to an understanding of the essence of love, and a better test of it, than the sentiments named by Spencer.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

I doubt, if one educated American in twenty could, even at this moment, tell a sapphire from an amethyst, or a turquoise from a garnet; though the women are rather more expert as lapidaries.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

What a rivalry must exist among the Chaffey Brothers as to who shall be the chaffiest and the wheatiest of the family!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 11, 1893 by Various

My father was a rich man; everybody spoke of him as a millionaire, and spoke the truth for once; and all my college chums envied me my luck.
— from Toilers of Babylon: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon