Henry Adams

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.

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

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

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.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in read more

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.