The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

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.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.