My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

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

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.

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

It is my turn now; and if I come back, it is yours.

I will dine nowhere without your consent although with my present feelings I might be trusted with fifty virgins naked in a dark room.

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.