"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."
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."
"The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before the fall..."
"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."
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
"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."