Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

An army marches on its stomach.

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

History is the invention of historians.