There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting fo... - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."

"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."

"He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed."

"Mercy!"cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?""The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas,"laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?"

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."