Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adamswas an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1838
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Henry Adams quotes about
travel taste inches
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
history fleas irritated
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
suicide believe men
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.
tired boredom endurance
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, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.
inspirational leadership education
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
dream nature men
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
friendship true-friend two
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
government people political
A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.
marriage capacity cornerstones
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
philosophy order medicine
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
education teacher retirement
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
teacher giving parent
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
love friendship best-friend
A friend in power is a friend lost.
cheer politics purpose
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.