All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart.