These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Great things are won by great dangers.