Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them..

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment..

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away..

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either..

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow..

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those end….

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians..

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason..

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity..

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions..

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly..

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world..

Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, ….

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil..

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you..

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. N….

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly b….

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you..

Integrity expects integrity..

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards..