You can only come to the morning through the shadows.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

The wise speak only of what they know.

Oft hope is born, when all is forlorn.

He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed.