“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!”

“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.”

“Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.”

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

“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.”

“Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)”

“Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.”