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Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about morality

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about intelligence, faith, good, good luck, man

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about word, thinking, man

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about man

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about ignorance, education, nothing

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.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about friendship, thinking, life

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about man

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about philosophy, problems

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics, games

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about power

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about simplicity, man

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about force, genius

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about americans

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.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about influence

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about advertising, victims, end, self-control, power, 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.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about press, purpose, nothing

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about evolution, progress