Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.