Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

The Lord’s prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

Publish and be damned.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

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

When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Habit is ten times nature.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.