There is a joy in danger.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

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.