Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.