Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or purity:
“I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)
“My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)