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

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

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.

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

Our dog just wanders around the house with a concerned look on his face. Dogs are just people who can't find their phone.

It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

The whole point of wearing a disguise was to be seen wearing her.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

I've spent my life following my passion.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.