The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – 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
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
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams