The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears..

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid..

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, ….

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

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

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..

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

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow..

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

Integrity expects integrity..

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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