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
travel taste inches
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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.
philosophy order medicine
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
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.
broken-heart broken-promises matter
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
luxury morality ethics
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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.
genius force highest
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
summer country lying
From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster -- that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys.
indulge-in laughing society
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.