Quotes about Henry Brooks Adams

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

#Henry Brooks Adams

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers,...

#Henry Brooks Adams

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race...

#Henry Brooks Adams

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

#Henry Brooks Adams

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

#Henry Brooks Adams

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a...

#Henry Brooks Adams

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity...

#Henry Brooks Adams

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

#Henry Brooks Adams