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
class america boredom
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
strength sleep devil
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.
friendship bears neighbor
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
strong men lazy
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.
practice statistics mathematician
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.
government giving office
I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.
women moral settling
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
play answers examination
My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
psychology study judgment
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
love disease nervous
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
talking followers doe
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
boys enemy looks
Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
nature men gender
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
nature humanity study
The proper study of mankind is woman.