Maxioms by Henry Brooks Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot
Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot
Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, read more
The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the
morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting
in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down
the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a suggestion of
chrysanthemums and geraniums, or of October woods, dashed with
scarlet oaks and yellow maples.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.