Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. All the dogmatic… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing… — Henry Adams Copy Share
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share
The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were… — Henry Adams Copy Share
