Henry B. Adams
Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry B. AdamsNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. AdamsThe progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry B. AdamsChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. AdamsThe American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry B. AdamsThe proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry B. AdamsThe work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men
Henry B. AdamsThe press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry B. AdamsAll experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. AdamsAmerican society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry B. AdamsSusceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. AdamsAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. AdamsPolitics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry B. AdamsIn plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. AdamsPower is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry B. AdamsIt is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. AdamsThe effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry B. AdamsOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry B. AdamsThe woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. AdamsAt best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry B. AdamsYoung men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry B. AdamsIt is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry B. Adams
