Even when he played, he made a business of it.

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows...

He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested."[

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.