"A teacher affects eternity: he can never tell where his influence stops."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"Chaos often breed life, when order breed habit."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"Even in America, the Indian summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad…but never hustled."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"Nothing is education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance is accumulates in the form of inert facts."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"We combat obstacle in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)

"What one know is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn."
- Henry [Brooks] Adams (1838 - 1918)