Blood is the price of victory

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance.

War is the province of danger.