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"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

Henry B. Adams, American Historian

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"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

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