It is cowardice to commit suicide.

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.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

History is written by the winners.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.