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