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..

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..

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 ….

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

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

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

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

Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon..