One Sought Not Absolute Truth. One Sought

A New Friend Is Always A Miracle, But At Thirty-three Years Old, Such A Bird Of Paradise Rising In The Sage-brush Was An Avatar. One Friend In A Lifetime Is Much; Two Are Many; Three Are Hardly

Teachers Affect Eternity. There Is No Telling Where Their Influence Stops.

The Great Word Evolution Had Not Yet, In 1860, Made A New Religion Of History, But The Old Religion Had Preached The Same Doctrinefor A Thousand Years Without Finding In The Entire History Of Rome Anything But Flat Contradiction.

[p]olitical And Social And Scientific Values ... Should Be Correlated In Some Relation Of Movement That Could Be Expressed In Mathematics, Nor Did One Care In The Least That All The World Said It Could Not Be Done, Or That One Knew Not Enough Mathematics Even To Figure A Formula Beyond The Schoolboy S=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler And Newton Could Take Liberties With The Sun And Moon, An Obscure Person ... Could Take Liberties With Congress, And Venture To Multiply Its Attraction Into The Square Of Its Time. He Had Only To Find A Value, Even Infinitesimal, For Its Attraction.

Probably The Institution Of Marriage Had Its Origin In Love Of Property. Both Men And Women Were United In This--that Whatever They Loved Best, They Wished To Possess. The Usual Theory Holds That The Communal System Would Not Permit The Gratification Of This Desire At The Expense Of Communal Rights, And That Therefore Men Were Driven To Gratify Their Passion By Purchasing Or By Capturing Women From Neighboring And Hostile Tribes.