Quotes By Henry B. Adams

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.