The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. -Henry Adams Life
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. -Henry Adams Power
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. -Henry Adams Faith
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. -Henry Adams Travel
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. -Henry Adams Intelligence
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. -Henry Adams Sad
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. -Henry Adams Intelligence
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. -Henry Adams Friendship
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. -Henry Adams Science
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -Henry Adams Science
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -Henry Adams Education
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. -Henry Adams Alone