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

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.