Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity

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

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

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