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.

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

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

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.

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