Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
Miles FranklinOnly a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.
Miles FranklinIt is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
Miles FranklinIf the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.
Miles Franklin