The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

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.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.