Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions.

One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.

Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of the former.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.