Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien. - Carl von Clausewitz

Phillipsburg was the name of one of those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.

(1) War becomes a completely isolated act, which arises suddenly, and is in no way connected with the previous history of the combatant States. (2) If it is limited to a single solution, or to several simultaneous solutions. (3) If it contains within itself the solution perfect and complete, free from any reaction upon it, through a calculation beforehand of the political situation which will follow from it.

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.