Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.