Quote #5

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

More from Henry Adams

  1. Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in mos…
  2. Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
  3. Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
  4. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom…
  5. A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to cr…
  6. Friends are born, not made.
  7. For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
  8. A friend in power is a friend lost.

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