“All's well that ends better.”
“I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.”
“It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that." "Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam. "But I am going to Mordor." "I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you.”
“I'm going on an adventure!”
“Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.”
“Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
“The weary sun hath made a golden setAnd by the bright tract of his fiery carGives token of a goodly day to-morrow.”
“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!”
“True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.”
“Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.”
“The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.”
“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.”
“How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
“Even through the hollow eyes of deathI spy life peering.”
