Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.