Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

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.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.