A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Friends are born, not made.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Intimates are predestined.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

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.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

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.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

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.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

The proper study of mankind is woman.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

They know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
- Henry B. Adams Quote

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.
- Henry B. Adams Quote