A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.