Music of the Night(engale)

“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.”

“What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good on this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

“It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.”

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”

“Deep roots are not reached by frost.”

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.’ ”

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.”

     “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.”