What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

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

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 hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Everyday my life gets better and better. I make loving, life affirming choices daily to create an amazing life.

Give me but one hour of Scotland Let me see it ere I die.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.

Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.