Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

Integrity expects integrity.

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

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

the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

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.

Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!