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

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

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