A biography for Henry Adamshasn’t been written yet.
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”
“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
“I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.”
“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.”
“A new friend is always a miracle...One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”
“No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.”
“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.”
“Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.”
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.”
“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
“The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.”
“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
“No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”
“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.”
“No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.”