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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.