On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch

And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

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.

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.