"May your beer be ample and your days be merry."

"I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

"The elves are not good or evil. They are simply elves."

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."