Alice

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world.”
― TOLKIEN J. R. R.

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”
― Lewis Carroll