He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

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

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.