Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams
The proper study of mankind is woman. – Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams
In the one branch he most needed – Henry Adams
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. – Henry Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost. – Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that its a bore. – Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with ones own. – Henry Adams
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks Im wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. – 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. – Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. – Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. – Henry Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. – Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. – Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams
Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams
