It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

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

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene