"It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
"It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
"I will take the Ring", he said, "though I do not know the way."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."