I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

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.