All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Habit is ten times nature.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'