Habit is ten times nature.

Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.

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

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

I have seen their backs before.