I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.