Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!
Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works…
I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.
It is impossible to say just what I mean!
All art is quite useless.
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.