Quote #11

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

More from Henry Adams

  1. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
  2. Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
  3. A friend in power is a friend lost.
  4. These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself …
  5. Friends are born, not made.
  6. Intimates are predestined.
  7. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom…
  8. Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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