Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
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.
Habit is ten times nature.