One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
Henry AdamsThe great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.
Henry AdamsEveryone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams