Publish and be damned.

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

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

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.