The Hobbit (Middle Earth, #0)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

I have chosen Mr. Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.

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.

Gandalf answered angrily: “I brought him, and I don’t bring things that are of no use.

“Farewell! O Gandalf!” said the king. “May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

Gandalf looked at him. “My dear Bilbo!” he said. “Something is the matter with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.”