Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

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

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

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

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

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.