Quotes by : Henry Adams

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever....

Friends are born, not made.

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.....

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.