What are wits for unless a man uses them?
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.
Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.