The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.