We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

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

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.