“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”

“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.”

“Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.”

“The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.”

“Black (for such the quarries yield
Where the sun hath never shone,
Which night only rests upon,
Was the marble floor, which gave
Mirror like some clear dark wave.”

“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”

“One of the charms of Africa, is the long settled periods of pure unclouded sky, in which the sun rises and sets with no flaming splashes of vivid colours, but by gentle, imperceptible gradations of pure light, waning or waxing.”

“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

“We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air;
We dug a spring in infancy
Of water pure and fair;

We sowed in youth a mustard seed,
We cut an almond rod;
We are now grown up to riper age—
Are they withered in the sod?”

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”