Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.
Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.
The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.
Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.