“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.”
Nature
“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
FaithAll Quotes by Henry Adams
“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”
Politics“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Intelligence“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“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.”
Life“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“Friends are born, not made.”
Friendship“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.”
Faith“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.”
Art“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.”
Teacher“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.”
Trust“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
Politics“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
Alone“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
Faith“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
Travel“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
Marriage“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Politics“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
Education“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
History“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
Society