Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.