Ability Has Nothing To Do With Opportunity.

Love Is The Idler's Occupation, The Warrior's Relaxation, And The Sovereign's Ruination.

Send Me 300 Francs; That Sum Will Enable Me To Go To Paris. There, At Least, One Can Cut A Figure And Surmount Obstacles. Everything Tells Me I Shall Succeed. Will You Prevent Me From Doing So For The Want Of 100 Crowns?

A Man Who Has No Consideration For The Needs Of His Men Ought Never To Be Given Command.

There Is One Kind Of Robber Whom The Law Does Not Strike At, And Who Steals What Is Most Precious To Men: Time.

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.