O henry Quote by Henry Adams

“Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that…

— Henry Adams

“The habit of doubt; of distrusting his own judgment and of totally rejecting the judgment of the world; the tendency to regard every question…

— Henry Adams

[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”                                             John Quincy Adams”

— Rosalinda Morgan

“I am persuaded however that he [John Adams] means well for his Country, is always an honest Man, often a Wise One, but sometimes…

— Benjamin Franklin

“No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, "Good food at…

— Lynne Truss

“[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he…

— Jane Austen

“As Washington, Adams, and Jefferson reached the cusp of adulthood, each exhibited a passion for independence. Each hungered for emancipation from the entanglements of…

— John Ferling

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“Indeed, on the face of it, this man of abnormal strength and constitution and obscure ambition, whom Hugh would never know, could never deliver…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Henry wondered, too, what life would have had for her and how her exquisite faculty of challenge could have dealt with a world which…

— Colm Tóibín

[John Adams's] vividly descriptive prose is supremely quotable. Adams wears his heart on his sleeve and reveals all of his ambitions, doubts, and insecurities,…

— Gordon S. Wood