“Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.”

“When my journal appears many statues must come down.”

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

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

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

“Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.”

“MacCaulay clutches his coat tightly and makes towards the elaborate iron gates of the park. He hurries past Apsley House: one time residence of the ‘hero of a hundred fights’ – the Duke of Wellington. His monument to his own great deeds stands yet in front of the drawing room windows. If he had, in modesty, forgotten his own greatness, he might have looked upon it, and been reminded.”