All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

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

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient - at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

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

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

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.