Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

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

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.

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.

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