Henry Adams Quotes & Sayings
53 most famous Henry Adams quotes and sayings (historian). These are the first 10 quotes we have for him.
“Friends are born, not made.”
“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
“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.”
“Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
“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.”
“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.”
“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.”
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