Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. - Ellis Peters
Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned. - Ellis Peters
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. - Ellis Peters
Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment! - Ellis Peters
He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands, - Ellis Peters
Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that. - Ellis Peters
Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be. - Ellis Peters