War,--the trade of barbarians!

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.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

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.

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.