Henry Adams Quotes
1838 – 1918
American historian and writer, author of 'The Education of Henry Adams', which won the Pulitzer Prize after his death.
20 quotesAbout Henry Adams on Wikipedia
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong.”
“Was it politics that had caused this atrophy of the moral senses by disuse?”
“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”
“The matter was too serious for any treatment but a joke, and joking made it more serious still.”
“Of all weaknesses he most disliked timid and half-hearted faith.”
“A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum.”
“Meanwhile, here she sat face to face with a moral lunatic.”
