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And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.
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He John Hampden knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.
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Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.
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Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
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History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.
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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.
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Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.