“England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

“You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?’ ‘Share? Do you mean unite? If both are of age and avoid public indecency, certainly.’ ‘Will the law ever be that in England?’ ‘I doubt it. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.”

“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.  ”

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”

“I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”

“The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.”