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.

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.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

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

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.