All experience is an arch, to build upon. – Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with ones own. – Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon. – Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with ones own. – Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. – 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
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. – Samuel Dash