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'.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.