A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.