“Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.”

“No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.”

It is easy to say we have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go… But I still remain hopeful.

Science is not an illusion. Illusion would be the belief that we can get the impossible from somewhere else.

“To rely on rustics and not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.”