Habit is ten times nature.

Yes, about ten minutes.

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.

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

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

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.