There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

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.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

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

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.