A general must be a charlatan.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?