Quotes by Henry Adams

"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable."

"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn."

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."

"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."

"Morality is a private and costly luxury."

"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world."

"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."

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

"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."

"A friend in power is a friend lost."

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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