He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

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."[

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.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.