The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own.… — 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
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Harvard College was probably less hurtful than any other university then in existence. It taught little, and that little ill, but it… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — 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
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney… — 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
As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects… — 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
“For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up 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 Image
“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 Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
