John Adams: A Life

by John Ferling

To make matters worse he soon came to regard teaching as a “school of affliction,” a daily drudgery of squiring “a large number of little runtlings, just capable of lisping A.B.C. and troubling the Master.”

Ovid’s declaration of his superiority to soldiers: “I am outstanding in intellect. My mind is superior to my hand. All my force is in my mind.”