The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

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.

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.

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.

Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

The difference between success and failure is work.

I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!