If 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 FranklinI never can see why they make such a fuss and get so frightened because wimmen does a thing or two now they usedn't to. Nothing short of a earthquake can make them not men an' wimmmen, an' that's the main thing.
Miles FranklinCowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does.
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 Franklin