I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.
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.
It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
