| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Wellington |
| | | A great country can have no such thing as a little war. | 1 |
| Error is ever the sequence of haste. | 2 |
| Extra interest signifies extra risk. | 3 |
| Habit is ten times nature. | 4 |
| I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. | 5 |
| Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage. | 6 |
| Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again. | 7 |
| The Lord’s Prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. | 8 |
| The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won. | 9 |
| Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were. | 10 |
| When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up. | 11 | | |
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