Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. |
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse |
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils |
Habit is ten times nature. |
Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest. |
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me. |
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. |
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won. |
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won |
Publish and be damned |
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton |
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. |
The only thing I am afraid of is fear |
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill |
There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry |