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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

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I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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Yet such is oft 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.

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"They are at first sight at any rate", laughed Pippin with sudden relief after reading Gandalf's
letter. "But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches".

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

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Yes, but from a jail one is set free, and when from a jail one is set free but has the name of Edmondo Dantes, one revenges oneself.

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One always loves what harms one.

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A smile can have degrees of unsuspected intensities.

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Every evening at exactly eleven o'clock, anywhere you are and in any situation, I'll go outside and in the sky I'll look for Sirius. You shall do the same so our thoughts, even if we should be miles away, even if we haven't seen each other in a long time and ignore everything of each other, will meet up there and be close...