More from Henry Adams

  1. Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom…
  2. A friend in power is a friend lost.
  3. Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
  4. 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.
  5. All experience is an arch, to build upon.
  6. Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
  7. 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…
  8. Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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