He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.

When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

I am the very model of a modern major general

Let the punishment fit the crime.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.