If you believe that you will believe anything.
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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.
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
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.