please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack.

I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory.

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.