Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.