Henry Adams quotes and sayings
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams quotes
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Intimates are predestined.
- A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
- Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
- Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
- Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
- They know enough who know how to learn.
- No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.