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.'
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.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
