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
tears shed ifs
If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
indulge-in laughing society
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.
people evil taxation
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
travel mistake ignorance
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
teaching tiresome
Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.
war army fighting
It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.
teacher men effort
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.
love friendship best-friend
A friend in power is a friend lost.
education teaching ignorance
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
political beginnings-and-ends human-nature
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
travel taste inches
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
differences influence select
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
sweet morning thank-god
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
education teacher retirement
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.