Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?