The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.