Quotes by Henry Adams

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.

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

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

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

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with ones own.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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

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

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Friends are born, not made.

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.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

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