At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

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.