283 Quotes by Henry Adams

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

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.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

History is only a value of relation.