There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.

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.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

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.

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

Habit is ten times nature.