Henry Brooks AdamsThinkers

American society is a sort of flat, fresh water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Experience is an arch, to build upon.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

Human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Madrid is a hole but in rainy weather, a place fit only to drown rats.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Philosophy is unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Politics is a field whereby its practical practice consists in ignoring facts.

Politics is the systematic organization of hatred.

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.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.