Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams (1838 - 1918) was a US journalist, historian, and academician and novelist.

Wisdom & Quotes

From The Education of Henry Adams

• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
• A friend in power is a friend lost.
• One friend in a life is much, two are many, three are hardly possible.
• They know enough who know how to learn.
• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
• Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

John Wanamaker