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.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

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

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.

As a man thinketh so is he? The faith of a mustard seed? I planted these words in my thoughts, and still, mind wound up lost, between my dreams and reality.

if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red

Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied.

Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

One doesn't have an agreement to that effect written down on parchment and sealed; but it is as well understood and ought to be as faithfully kept as any legal contract.

The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

Without a concise set of rules to follow we would probably all have to resort to common sense

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.