Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.