It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

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

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.

Life's not all beer and skittles

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

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

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.