France will always be a great nation.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

The army is the true nobility of our country.