J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Love is the only gold.

Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.

If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

The prize of all too precious you.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

A treasure...at the top of any list of fantasy to be cherished.

Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang onto it. You must not let yourself be waylaid, and have it taken from you.

There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.

Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door—a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. “Carter after you.” “Um, how do I—” “How do you think?” Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos’s head against it and see if that worked.

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.

Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.

What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.

Ozorne, my precious, where are you? - Rikash Moonsword

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.