Quote #9
A friend in power is a friend lost.
More from Henry Adams
- Friends are born, not made.
- 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.
- Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom…
- Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
- Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
- Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
- All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself …