I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
Success is never so interesting as struggle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
There are three needs of the griever: To find the words for the loss, to say the words aloud and to know that the words have been heard.
History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
You're attractive because you don't know how attractive you are.
No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed.