Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

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.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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

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

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

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