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

The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.

Habit is ten times nature.

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

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

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.