"He's a Baggins, Not Some Blockheaded Bracegirdle From Hardbottle."

"He used to often say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: it's springs were at every doorstep and every path was it's tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to...'"