Quote #32
Even in America, 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.
More from Henry Adams
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
- Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
- We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.
- Henry James chews more than he bites off.
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.
- I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.