If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. Henry Adams More Quotes by Henry Adams More Quotes From Henry Adams As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. Henry Adams occasionalpoliticspolitical You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! Henry Adams politicspoliticaluse A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. Henry Adams brokenmenboys The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. Henry Adams touristsdirttravel Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting. Henry Adams politicalmenenemy Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still. Henry Adams judgmentpsychologystudy It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. Henry Adams nervousdiseaselove The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. Henry Adams followersdoetalking The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry Adams gendernaturemen The proper study of mankind is woman. Henry Adams studynaturehumanity In the one branch he most needed Henry Adams branchesneededmath Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral. Henry Adams settlingwomenmoral Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. Henry Adams politicspoliticalgames Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. Henry Adams strugglemenyears I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life. Henry Adams satisfaction-in-lifestrugglemen Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself Henry Adams playsciencechildren Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy. Henry Adams boyslooksenemy Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity. Henry Adams unityeffortenergy Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. Henry Adams calmmindwater At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. Henry Adams broken-promisesbroken-heartmatter
