Ellis Peters

“When you have done men favors, when you have given them too much, they hate you for it.”

“There is nothing certain in this world, and it is better to be prepared for the worst.”

“It’s the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.”

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

“Man is not simple. He is a beautiful tangle of contradictions.”

“No one is ever holy without suffering.”

“It is better to be a fool than to be dead.”

“Death is a great tidy-upper.”

“Every man has a right to his own failures.”

“Truth is a jewel which should not be garnished.”

“Love is not a possession to be hoarded. It is a wealth to be invested.”

“The young are always coming up with the new, and hold to it fiercely, but the old is never lost.”

“A man who has learned to wait for what he wants is a man who will be there when it arrives.”

“A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his own sake, and bear it.”

“What is bred in the bone will not out in the flesh.”

“The dead cannot be wronged. They are beyond all suffering and all memory.”

“The world is a hard place, and it is a good thing to have a friend.”