I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

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

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

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