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
tears shed ifs
If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
travel dirt novelty
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
boys men broken
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
psychology study judgment
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
math branches needed
In the one branch he most needed
history historical use
Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
expression habit strikes
The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
tangled may enough
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
training mind want
The mind resorts to reason for want of training.
saint assuming century
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.
struggle men modern
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
summer sunny-weather sunny-afternoon
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.