The best strategy is always to be very strong.

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment.

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