“Men go and come, but earth abides.”

“If there is a God who made us and we did wrong before His eyes—as George says—at least we did wrong only because we were as God made us, and I do not think that He should set traps. Oh, you should know better than George! Let us not bring all that back into the world again—the angry God, the mean God—the one who does not tell us the rules of the game, and then strikes us when we break them. Let us not bring Him back.”

“Men go and come, but earth abides.”

“As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war—but ideas!”

“The trouble you're expecting never happens”