In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

We are nothing but by the law.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.