He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

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

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.