Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

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

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Publish and be damned.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.