The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession
Henry AdamsThe sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.
Henry AdamsWe shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Henry AdamsThe capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
Henry Adams