Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

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

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.