Maxioms by Henry Brooks Adams
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.
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.
Morality is a private and costly luxury
Morality is a private and costly luxury
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.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence -- beginning with one's own.
