The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Blue Cross
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/
[Baqir Sharīf al-Qurashi, The life of Imam Muhammad al-Jawad, Wonderful Maxims and Arts, 2005]
“He never knows whether they want him for what he can do for them now — or will do for them later.”
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)
Book I, Ch. 7.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
you ask. "Well, I'll get more," he says. Just as at cricket, you get more runs. There's no use in the runs, but to get more of them than other people is the game. So all that great foul city of London there, — rattling, growling, smoking, stinking, — a ghastly heap of fermenting brickwork, pouring out poison at every pore, — you fancy it is a city of work? Not a street of it! It is a great city of play; very nasty play and very hard play, but still play.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866)
As attributed by Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches"). (2013) in “Interview with Dr. Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches")“ https://www.luther2017.de/en/wiki/martin-luther-and-the-witches/kai-lehmann-martin-luther-firmly-believed-in-witches/
Disputed
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
