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
broken-heart broken-promises matter
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
men self aggravation
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
lying trust-no-one liberty
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
sea president ships
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
god men always-trying
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
summer sunny-weather sunny-afternoon
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
analogies weapons succeed
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
power political president
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
doctrine physics accepting
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
passion men young
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
political upset progress
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
suicide science race
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
men graves edges
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
art mean literature
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.