“I am for her an indispensable, integral part of her boudoir.” The Duel

All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well. Book IV

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish. The Fellowship of the Ring

Religious values tend to be especially deeply held and hence frequent cause of disastrous behaviour. [...] The modern world provides us with abundant secular examples of admirable values to which we cling under conditions where those values no longer make sense [...] It appears to me that much of the rigid opposition to environmental concerns in the First World nowadays involves values acquired early in life and never again reexamined [...]. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed