The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

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.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.