Knowledge must become capability.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

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

The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

In War more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently to what we had expected, and look differently when near, to what they did at a distance.

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.