No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsEvery one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
Henry AdamsIf Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.
Henry Adams