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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious.
By Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
By Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.
By Henry Adams
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
By Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
By Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
By Henry Adams
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
By Henry Adams
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
By Henry Adams
Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.
By Henry Adams
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment they know enough who know how to learn.
By Henry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
By Henry Adams
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
By Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
By Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
By Henry Adams
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
By Henry Adams