With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter! — J. R. R. Tolkien. English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
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.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.