Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I have seen their backs before.

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

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

Yes, about ten minutes.