No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsThe photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
Henry AdamsI am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry AdamsA certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.
Henry Adams