Henry Adams

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a read more

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

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

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