Henry Adams

“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”

“Friends are born, not made.”

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

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”

“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”

“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”

“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”

“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.”

“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.”