as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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

To have faith in Divine protection is good, but even beter if backed by the pratical assistance heaven has a right to expect from sensible mortals.

You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

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, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.