We are all born equally far from the sun.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak.

Sarcasm is the protest of the weak.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart