Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
Early youth is a baffling time
Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.