A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry B. Adams
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Henry B. Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry B. Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry B. Adams
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry B. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry B. Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry B. Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry B. Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry B. Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams
Intimates are predestined.
Henry B. Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry B. Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry B. Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. Adams
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry B. Adams
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