Mr. Obama has presented himself as a fresh face, unsteeped in Washington and the proverbial “politics as usual.”

It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head.

The perfection of physical form and power is fashioned by the soul strengthfully temperate, masterful of the forces of the body. The fulness of mental life is developed only by the soul strengthfully resolute and patient, heroic in endurance.

... where I consoled myself with a fesnyng of pet ferrets I then kept