Pursue One Great Decisive Aim With Force

Our Knowledge Of Circumstances Has Increased, But Our Uncertainty, Instead Of Having Diminished, Has Only Increased. The Reason Of This Is, That We Do Not Gain All Our Experience At Once, But By Degrees; So Our Determinations Continue To Be Assailed Incessantly By Fresh Experience; And The Mind, If We May Use The Expression, Must Always Be Under Arms.

War Should Never Be Thought Of As Something Autonomous, But Always As An Instrument Of Policy.

Timidity Is The Root Of Prudence In The Majority Of Men.

Desperate Affairs Require Desperate Remedies.

Strength Of Character Does Not Consist Solely In Having Powerful Feelings, But In Maintaining One's Balance In Spite Of Them.