True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.