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

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

An army marches on its stomach.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.