Integrity expects integrity.
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.
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.