Friends are born, not made.
Henry AdamsTag: 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 AdamsTag: 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 AdamsTag: 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 AdamsTag: philosophy
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry AdamsTag: 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 AdamsTag: politics washington
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry AdamsNature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
Henry AdamsTag: science imagination nature
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
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