Quotes By Henry B. Adams

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.