evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.

Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.

I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

Mind your P's and Q's.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.