Habit is ten times nature.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.