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

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

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

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

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

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.