There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.