Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

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

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

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.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

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