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.

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

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

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

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

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

The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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.

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

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.

The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Gerry Ford is easy to spot on the course. He drives the cart with the red cross painted on top.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

No two wars are identical.

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

No man can be judge to his own cause.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.