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.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

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

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

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