Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.
Edward CarpenterRemember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
Edward CarpenterLet your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.
Edward CarpenterGreat success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
Edward Carpenter