“For nothing is evil in the beginning.”

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”

“Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.”

“Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.”

“For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.”

“evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.”

“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”