Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage…

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no…

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence…

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction…

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset…

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man…

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts…

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like…

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

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops…

Friends are born, not made…

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers…

All experience is an arch, to build upon…

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks…

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race…