What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.