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
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.
education teacher learning
They know enough who know how to learn.
political beginnings-and-ends human-nature
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
responsibility liberty ignoring-facts
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
broken-heart broken-promises matter
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
life change order
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
luxury morality ethics
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
order sloth laziness
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
teacher men effort
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.
inferiority likes outsiders
Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it.
strong reality men
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
children government years
A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an efficient Constitution; another twelve years of energy brought a reaction against the government then created; a third period of twelve years was ending in a sweep toward still greater energy; and already a child could calculate the result of a few more such returns.
genius force highest
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.