We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.