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.

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.

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

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

Integrity expects integrity.

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.