Henry Brooks Adams Quotes

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit

Morality is a private and costly luxury

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.