Friends are born, not made.
Henry AdamsMots clés friend friendship
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.
Henry AdamsMots clés friend friendship
A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry AdamsMots clés murder influence student teacher parent
General Grant seriously remarked to a particularly bright young woman that Venice would be a fine city if it were drained.
Henry AdamsPhilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry AdamsMots clés philosophy
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsMots clés friend friendship power
In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.
Henry AdamsMots clés politics washington
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry AdamsMots clés humanity chaos order
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
Henry AdamsMots clés science imagination nature
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
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