...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl.

It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.