Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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

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.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.

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