“Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?”
“There is no such thing as a lover's oath. ”
“A liar is always lavish of oaths.”
“the strange thing is that when a word is well established as a swear word, it seems to lose its original meaning; that is, it loses the thing that made it into a swear word. A word becomes an oath because it means a certain thing, and, because it has become an oath, it ceases to mean that thing.”
“Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.”