No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry AdamsIn practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
Henry AdamsLaplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
Henry AdamsNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams