To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.
I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.