To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.