What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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.
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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.