My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.

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

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

Habit is ten times nature.