Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
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.