The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.