The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.