Henry Adams quotes and sayings
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry Adams quotes
- Friends are born, not made.
- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
- The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.