“Your eyes are the shade of intelligence, able to pierce a man’s heart with merely a glance. As they have done so to mine.”

“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.”

“The eye of your mind—your intelligence; the eye of your heart—your conscience; and the eye of your soul—your instinct.”

“Then he called him Maeglin, which is Sharp Glance, for he perceived that the eyes of his son were more piercing than his own, and his thought could read the secrets of hearts beyond the mist of words.”

“In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man’s hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!”

“Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.”