Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.