The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry AdamsIt [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
Henry AdamsI hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
Henry Adams[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
Henry AdamsWhat a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.
Henry Adams