Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building?

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. Make them your models. This is the only way to become a great general and to master the secrets of the art of war. With your own genius enlightened by this study, you will reject all maxims opposed to those of these great commanders.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

He is not great who is not greatly good.