You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!

- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit