From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always..that it was possible for the same man to be both vehement and remiss: a man not subject to be vexed, and offended with the incapacity of his scholars and auditors in his lectures and expositions. Book I
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. The Fellowship of the Ring
But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in a hostile attitude to man. Book VI
Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip. The Man Who Laughs
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