Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. – Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. – Henry Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. – 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. – Henry Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. – Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. – Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made. – Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon. – Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. – Henry Adams
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. – Henry Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – Henry Adams
