The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.

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

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.

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

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