The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something (or so Thorin said to the young dwarves). You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

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