“Habit is ten times nature.”
“When my journal appears, many statues must come down.”
“We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
“The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”
“Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.”
“Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.”
“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”
“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.”
“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.”
“To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”