Henry Adams Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Intimates are predestined.”

“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.”

“Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.”

“I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.”

“The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.”

“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.”

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

“They know enough who know how to learn.”

“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”

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