Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

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 mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

A great country ought not to make little wars.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.

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