If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

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

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