Quotes by : Henry Adams

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while in Washington he saw plenty....

A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.....

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

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

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life.....

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians....

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