A biography for Henry Adamshasn’t been written yet.
“Good men do the most harm.”
“Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.”
“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
“Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.”
“At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.”
“The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.”
“Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
“The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.”
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
“Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.”
“A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.”
“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“They know enough who know how to learn.”
“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”
“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
“Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”