The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.