As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
Henry AdamsThe 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.
Henry AdamsOne does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
Henry AdamsThe progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry AdamsNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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 Adams