“Short cuts make long delays.”

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.

There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

Never laugh at live dragons.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

Not all those who wander are lost.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

The road goes ever on and on

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don’t be looking at all the other things. Start with you.

I start where the last man left off.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

You make your own dream.

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.