“Friends are born, not made.”

— Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907), Ch. VII

About Henry Adams

1838 – 1918

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

“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.”

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

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“Because it was he, because it was I.”

“A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.”

“A true friend is forever a friend.”

“And such a friendship ends not but with life.”