Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

Mr Robert Montgomery's genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules of syntax? [His] readers must take such grammar as they can get and be thankful.

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