Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

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

They wanted me to be a Washington.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation