When you think what someone thinks & do what they do, you'll find that you'll produce a similar result. - Marshall Sylver
Such is often the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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
The Road goes ever on and on / Down from the door where it began. / Now far ahead the Road has gone, / And I must follow, if I can. - J.R.R. Tolkien
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out. - J.R.R. Tolkien
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. - J.R.R. Tolkien
There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. - J.R.R. Tolkien
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many. - J.R.R. Tolkien
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you?e done since you left home. - J.R.R. Tolkien
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. - J.R.R. Tolkien
. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. - Herman Melville
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. - Herman Melville
At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor. - Herman Melville
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