When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

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

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.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.