Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.