In war, important events result from trivial causes.
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.
Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.
If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.