Author: Henry Adams

Quotes

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

- Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

- Henry Adams

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

- Henry Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

- Henry Adams

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.

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.

- Henry Adams

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.

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 Adams

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

- Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

- Henry Adams

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

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