Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

If you believe that you will believe anything.