The Purely Defensive Is Doomed To Defeat.

War Must Be Made As Intense And Awful As Possible In Order To Make It Short, And Thus To Diminish Its Horrors.

With Audacity One Can Undertake Anything, But Not Do Everything.

To Live, Is To Suffer; And The Honest Man Is Always Fighting To Be Master Of His Own Mind.

It Is Exceptional And Difficult To Find In One Man All The Qualities Necessary For A Great General.

Chess Is Too Difficult To Be A Game And Not Serious Enough To Be A Science Or An Art.