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.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

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

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.

The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.