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'.

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

Yes, about ten minutes.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

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

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

A great country ought not to make little wars.