Henry Brooks Adams
13 quotations
They know enough who know how to learn.
The proper study of mankind is woman.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.