if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?