Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.