Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon.Collection: Buying
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.Collection: Men
Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.Collection: Money
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.Collection: Cost
He [John Hampden] knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility.Collection: War
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.Collection: Philosophy
Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.Collection: Men
The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.Collection: Progress
And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din, And fast from every village round the horse came spurring in.Collection: Horse
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.Collection: Being Thankful