“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”

— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, Ch. 20

About Henry Adams

1838 – 1918

American historian and writer, author of 'The Education of Henry Adams', which won the Pulitzer Prize after his death.

“Friends are born, not made.”

“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

“Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me.”

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“Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.”

“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.”

“To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.”

“A teacher comes, they say, when you are ready.”

“When I am forgotten, as I shall be, and sleep in dull cold marble, say, I taught thee.”