The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

What course am I to take?" "Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight.

I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!

He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.

Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.