Henry Brooks Adams ( 10 of 25 )
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends read more
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, read more
The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting
in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down
the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of
chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with
scarlet oaks and yellow maples.
Morality is a private and costly luxury
Morality is a private and costly luxury
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
