Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

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

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.