It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

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.

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