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.

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

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

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

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

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.