I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

Adversity is the midwife of genius