Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

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

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.