Quotes by Henry Brooks Adams

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks...

#Famous Love, #Love

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

#Knowledge, #Youth

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

#Belief

Morality is a private and costly luxury

#Luxury, #Morality

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being,...

#Law And Lawyers

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 tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so...

#Doctrine

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

#Henry Brooks Adams