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.

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.

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.

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