"You have studied the subject for a long time," I said to him.

"Are there any conclusions you have been able to reach as a result of your investigation ?" He thought a minute and passed a wrinkled hand across a wrinkled brow.

"Nothing but this," he made answer, "that Cleveland weather is only constant in its inconstancy." We would gladly exchange some of these meteorological details for further information about Washington's own personal doings and feelings.
Of the latter the diaries reveal little.

Washington was an objective man, above all in his papers.

He sets down what happens and says little about causes, motives or mental impressions.