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All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Henry Adams

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Henry Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Henry Adams

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Henry Adams

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Henry Adams

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Henry Adams

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

Henry Adams

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Henry Adams

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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.

Henry Adams

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Henry Adams

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Henry Adams

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Henry Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Henry Adams

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Henry Adams

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Henry Adams

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Henry Adams

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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.

Henry Adams

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Henry Adams

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Henry Adams

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Henry Adams