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

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

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

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

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.

In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.