A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. (Henry Brooks Adams)
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man (Henry Brooks Adams)
Had Grant been a Congressman one would have been on one's guard, for one knew the type. One never expected from a Congressman more than good intentions and public spirit. Newspaper-men as a rule had no great respect for the lower House Senators had less and Cabinet officers had none at all. Indeed, one day when Adams was pleading with a Cabinet officer for patience and tact in dealing with Representatives, the Secretary impatiently broke out 'You can't use tact with a Congressman A Congressman is a hog You must take a stick and hit him on the snout' The secretary who made the remark 'may well have been Adams's friend, Secretary of the Interior Jacob Dolson Cox,' according to note 18 on p. 617. (Henry Brooks Adams)
You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout. (Henry Brooks Adams)
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense that which they will, is right that which they reject, is wrong and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral. (Henry Brooks Adams)
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Brooks Adams)
It love is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants. (Henry Brooks Adams)
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. (Henry Brooks Adams)
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world. (Henry Brooks Adams)
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. (Henry Brooks Adams)
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore. (Henry Brooks Adams)
I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about it and he suggested I go ahead. (Henry Brooks Adams)
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