“It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.”

— John Adams, Diary entry (4 August 1796)

About John Adams

1735 – 1826

Second President of the United States and a leading figure of the American Revolution.

“There is, in the human breast, a social affection, which extends to our whole species.”

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.”

“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”

“Beauty without purpose is beauty without virtue.”

“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”

“Far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined!”