Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Despatch, 1815.
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
Mem. by the Duke,[463:1] Sept. 18, 1836.
Circumstances over which I have no control.[463:2]
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.[463:3]
Upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.[463:4]
Letter to Mr. Huskisson.