Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

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.

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

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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.