Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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.
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.