There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

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

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.