Habit is ten times nature.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

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.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.