In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.