"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."

"I am not a hero. I am a hobbit."

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations."

"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."

"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."