He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

The man is the first weapon of battle. Let us study the soldier, for it is he who brings reality to it.

The instruments of battle are valuable only if one knows how to use them.

A force engaged is out of the hand of its commander.

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

When I’d confronted him, he’d left me and, like a parasite finding a fresh host, moved in with her.

Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?

Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.

Imagination is our ability to see inwardly and picture there that which has not yet appeared outwardly. Imagination is God's gift to us.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.