The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.