The young do not know enough to be prudent, and so they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. - Pearl S. Buck

In silence they lay close, without passion, but closer than passion could bring them they lay close.

In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.

There was no need to hurry that future — yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?