A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry B. Adams
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry B. Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry B. Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Henry B. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry B. Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
Henry B. Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry B. Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry B. Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry B. Adams
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry B. Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B. Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. Adams
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry B. Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry B. Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry B. Adams
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry B. Adams
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
Henry B. Adams
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Type:
Historian
Date of Birth:
1838-02-16
Year of Death:
1918
Nationality:
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