The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt. Henry Adams More Quotes by Henry Adams More Quotes From Henry Adams By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak. Henry Adams lazy strong men As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. Henry Adams occasional politics political 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 politics political use 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 broken men boys 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 political men enemy Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still. Henry Adams judgment psychology study It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. Henry Adams nervous disease love 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 followers doe talking The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. Henry Adams gender nature men The proper study of mankind is woman. Henry Adams study nature humanity In the one branch he most needed Henry Adams branches needed math 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 settling women moral Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. Henry Adams politics political games 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 struggle men years 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-life struggle men 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 play science children Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy. Henry Adams boys looks enemy Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity. Henry Adams unity effort energy 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 calm mind water At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. Henry Adams broken-promises broken-heart matter
