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.

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

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

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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

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