Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adamswas an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1838
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
artist long-ago church
Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.
hate ideas imagination
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
love disease nervous
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
talking followers doe
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.
boys enemy looks
Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.
nature men gender
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
delight photograph coarse
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
nature humanity study
The proper study of mankind is woman.
math branches needed
In the one branch he most needed
women moral settling
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
government giving office
I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.
organization hatred
Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.
travel dirt novelty
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
boys men broken
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.