A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsNo man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry AdamsTags: honesty integrity government truth-telling
Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.
Henry AdamsYou say that love is nonsense.... I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.
Henry AdamsNothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry AdamsChaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry AdamsKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry AdamsThese questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry AdamsThe chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
Henry AdamsTags: education teachers students
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry AdamsTags: writing influence writer author
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