My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

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

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

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

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself