Quotation:
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable."
More quotes from: Henry B. Adams
- "A friend in power is a friend lost. "
- "A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. "
- "Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is ..."
- "Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. "
- "Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage. "
- "All experience is an arch, to build upon. "
- "American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything ..."
- "As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. ..."
- "At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. "
- "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "
- "Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, ..."
- "Friends are born, not made. "
- "He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. "
- "In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. "
- "Intimates are predestined. "
- "It is always good men who do the most harm in the world. "
- "It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. "
- "Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. "
- "Morality is a private and costly luxury. "
- "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has ..."
- "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for ..."
- "No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain ..."
- "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the ..."
- "One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship ..."
- "Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. "
- "Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. "
- "Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. "
- "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. "
- "Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. "
- "Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. "
- "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. "
- "Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. "
- "Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. "
- "The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a ..."
- "The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by ..."
- "The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a ..."
- "The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no ..."
- "The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ..."
- "The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset ..."
- "The proper study of mankind is woman. "
- "The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. "
- "There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. "
- "They know enough who know how to learn. "
- "Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. "
- "What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how ..."
- "Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that ..."
- "You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take ..."
- "Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. "


