Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

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.