whiteness quotes

Through the cold time she holds me with evergreen devotion she bears up my whiteness.

- Earle Birney
  'She Is'.

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.