Henry Adams

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a read more

You 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.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.