An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

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

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.

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

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.