Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.