History is written by the winners.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

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

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.