Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

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

History is written by the winners.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.