Henry Adams Quotes

Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life a community of thought a rivalry of aim.

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

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.

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

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

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

No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.

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

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

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

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

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.