Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom.

A wizard is never late, nor is he early, he arrives precisely when he means to.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.