The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.