My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.
Henry AdamsI want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.
Henry AdamsWe shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
Henry AdamsYou say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry Adams