I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
School is a foretaste of life.
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.