As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

Habit is ten times nature.