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

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.

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

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

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

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers