"All that is gold does not glitter...." - Quote by J R R Tolkien

“If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy.”

“For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.”

“Where will wants not, a way opens.”

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”

“Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.”

“We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.”

“Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.”

“I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.”

“The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.”