“Processions of priests and religiosi have been for several days past praying for rain; but the gods are either angry, or nature is too powerful.”

The Seven Black Priests (pp. 175-176)
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939-1988), Swords Against Death (1970)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

1961, Berlin Crisis speech

As quoted in Typical English Churchmen (1909) by John Neville Figgis, p. 15

Source: White-Jacket (1850), Ch. 67
Context: Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused. The privilege, inborn and inalienable, that every man has of dying himself, and inflicting death upon another, was not given to us without a purpose. These are the last resources of an insulted and unendurable existence.

Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I, q. 25, art. 4

Preface, line 10
Silvae, Book V

Source: The Life and Adventures of John James Audubon, the Naturalist (1868), Ch. XXIX, p. 348
Context: Thank God it has rained all day. I say thank God, though rain is no rarity, because it is the duty of every man to be thankful for whatever happens by the will of the Omnipotent Creator; yet it was not so agreeable to any of my party as a fine day would have been.