“Angry people are not always wise.”

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”

“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.”

“Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.’

‘Well,’ he says, ‘I would only go if there was cake.”

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”

“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”

“It’s a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.”