Quotes by : Henry Adams

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.....

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic....

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

I, too, like yourself was a good party man: my party was that of the Church; I was ultramontane. Your....