When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!