Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I certainly think we need a common understanding in order to be able to work together productively. And there are certain forces that work against us.

In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only when we begin to trace the development of ideas that it becomes fascinating.

There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production - but the manner in which that performance has been introduced to the Army - the effect it was intended to have, together with some other circumstances, will amply justify my observations on the tendency of that Writing.