Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. – 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
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – 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
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan