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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
