To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
Publish and be damned.
I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself