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.

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.

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.

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

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