More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.