Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
I have a right to be blind sometimes.
I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.