Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.
Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.
A beaten general is disgraced forever.
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, . . . stubborn will.