Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.