Great Throughts Treasury

"I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose." - Haile Selassie

"No one gets rich quickly if he is honest." - Italian Proverbs

"The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions." - Italian Proverbs

"Too many chiefs, not enough warriors." - Italian Proverbs

"Pray not too often for great favors, for we stand most in need of small ones." - J. L. Balsford

"And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out. Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"For the time will soon come when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien