It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech