Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.

In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.

Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it.

I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.

A local church will only be as great as its conception of God.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

You cannot motivate anyone but yourself. To enhance or cause action in another person, you must create an atmosphere around them wherein they will want to motivate themselves.

I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.