Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

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

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

We are nothing but by the law.