Henry Adams

Morality is a private and costly luxury. ↗

— Henry Adams

#luxury #morality #private

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. ↗

— Henry Adams

#mean #means #say #says #slippery

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. ↗

— Henry Adams

#amount #astonishing #education #facts #form

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. One can trust nobody and nothing. ↗

— Henry Adams

#hired #interests #involved #lies #nobody

They know enough who know how to learn. ↗

— Henry Adams

#how #know #learn #who

A friend in power is a friend lost. ↗

— Henry Adams

#lost #power

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. ↗

— Henry Adams

#digest #man #more #must #now

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ↗

— Henry Adams

#companionship #counts #marriage #much

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

— Henry Adams

#american society #anything #flat #into #pond

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man