Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.