Maxioms by Henry Brooks Adams
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.
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
