Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.