Quotes by : Henry Adams

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum....

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.....

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule....

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

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

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the season and infinite in....

The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated....

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert....

Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside....