Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

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.

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.