“ I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your party system is one of your thefts from our Church; your National Convention is our Ecunemic Counc… Henry Adams
“ Charles Francis Adams was singular for mental poise — absence of self-assertion or self-consciousness — the faculty of standing apart without seeming aware that he was alone — a balance of mind and te… Henry Adams
“ Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs. Henry Adams
“ He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. Henry Adams
“ For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the ill… Henry Adams
“ The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. Henry Adams
“ A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Henry Adams
“ A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possib… Henry Adams
“ Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights. Henry Adams
“ The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the man… Henry Adams
“ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. Henry Adams
“ 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. Henry Adams
“ The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousan… Henry Adams
“ The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses co… Henry Adams
“ Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry Adams
