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

A great country cannot wage a little war.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

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.

Habit is ten times nature.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

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.