Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
– Henry Adams
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.
– Henry Adams
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
– Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
– Henry Adams
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.
– Henry Adams
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.
– Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
– Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
– Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
– Henry Adams
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.