The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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

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.

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.

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

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