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

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

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

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

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

I have seen their backs before.