Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

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

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Habit is ten times nature.

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

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.