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.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

In war, where imperfect intelligence, the threat of a catastrophe, and the number of accidents are incomparably greater than any other human endeavor, the amount of missed opportunities, so to speak, is therefore bound to be greater.

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.

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

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

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