We're used to it, you see; there's no excitement in what you're used to.
If geological time be taken as twenty-four hours, man's existence on
earth so far equals just two seconds of it; after a few more seconds,
when man has been frozen off the earth, geological time will stretch for
as long again, before the earth bumps into something, and be comes nebula
once more. God's hands haven't been particularly full, sir, have they--
two seconds out of twenty-four hours--if man is His pet concern?
"People do not like you to be different. If ever in your life you act
differently from others, you will find it so, mademoiselle."
She never went to meet life, but when it came, made the best of it. This
was her secret, and Pierson always felt rested in her presence.
He opened the gate, uttering one of those prayers which come so glibly
from unbelievers when they want anything.