I am Haley. I live in a big small world.

But the girl, ah—that was a different matter. He did not reason here. He knew that she was created to be protected, and that he was created tp protect her.

Ah, John, i wish that I might be a man with a man’s philosophy, but I am but a woman seeing with my heart rather than my head, and all that I can see is too horrible, too unthinkable to put into words.

As she took up the little live baby of Alice Clayton she dropped the dead body of her own into the empty cradle; for the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild breast which the dead could not still.

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.

I was their plaything and their idol, and something better—their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me.

Looking in a mirror he was startled to see a much thinner reflection of himself than he remembered: it looked remarkably like the young nephew of Bilbo who used to go trampling with his uncle in the Shire; but the eyes looked out at him thoughtfully. ‘Yes, you have seen a thing or two since you last peeped out of a looking-glass,’ he said to his reflection. ‘But now for a merry meeting!’ He stretched out his arms and whistled a tune.

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!

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

She asked, ‘Are you afraid?’ ‘Afraid of what?’ She said, ‘Life is scarier than death.’