Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

“A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage”

“The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth”

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

“They know enough who know how to learn.”

“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”

“You cant use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!”

“Even in America, 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”

“Morality is a private and costly luxury”

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

“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victims sympathies”

“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean”

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.”

“It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.”

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

You say that love is nonsense. ... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain an ache about the heart never leaving one by night or by day a long strain on ones nerves like toothache or rheumatism not intolerable at any one instant but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.