"We may stand, if only on one..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”

“Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains.”

“I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.”

“Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.”

“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”

“What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.”

“At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.”

“You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.”

“They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.”