All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-βthat and such hope as I bring.
Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.
