“It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible”

“There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.”

“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.”

“[Homeschooling]...recipe for genius: More of family and less of school, more of parents and less of peers, more creative freedom and less formal lessons.”

“…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper--a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.”

“For he is superstitious grown of late,Quite from the main opinion he held onceOf fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies.”