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.

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

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

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

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

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