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

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.