They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

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.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Integrity expects integrity.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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

Beauty is a perilous gift.