What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.