The world was fair, the mountains tallIn Elder Days before t... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."

"I wish it need not have happened in my time,"said Frodo."So do I,"said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"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."

"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."