"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 opp…"

"The elves are not good or evil. They are simply elves."

"I have been a soldier in a great war, and I have seen the evil that men can do."

"I have a great love for the language of England, and the English tongue."

"Despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."