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

"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…"

"I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size)."

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

"The Nazis have corrupted and ruined the noble northern spirit."