If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
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. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R. Tolkien Read Quote
