The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.
Henry AdamsNothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
Henry AdamsYou can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
Henry Adams