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

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.

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.

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.