“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

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

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

“As a rule it is circumstances that make men.”

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.'Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”

“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”