Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.' '...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.

...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, li…

...it is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

They more adeptly bend the willow's branches who have experience of the willow's roots.

Painting is not very difficult when you don't know how; but when you know, oh! then, it's another matter.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.