Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.

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.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.