"In one of Milton's sonnets is a famous line which is commonly classed among the noblest verses of the English language: — "They also serve, who only… - Henry Brooks Adams

Only one man in Adams's reach seemed to him supremely fitted by knowledge and experience to be an adviser and friend. This was Senator Sumner; and there, in fact, the young man's education began; there it ended.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts, but education and politics are two different and often contradictory things.

From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster — that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.