Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.