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

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.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?