Sophie Swetchine Quotes

I'm as clean as the days are long.

To the pure all things are pure!

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

The white flower of a blameless life.

I'm as clean as a whistle.

This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.

We should be living a life of purity.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

An honest man is always a child.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

I think there's an innocence to me.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.